What is What is Gordon Brown net worth?
Gordon Brown net worth 2025 is 15 million
James Gordon Brown is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010.
Before becoming the Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Brown was the Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1997 and 2007 during the Time Tony Blair was the Prime Minister.
Gordon Brown is currently serving as World Health Organization Ambassador for Global Health Financing.
Early Life
James Gordon Brown was born at the Orchard Maternity Nursing Home in Giffnock, Renfrewshire, Scotland.
Brown was brought up there with his elder brother John and younger brother Andrew in a manse; he is therefore often referred to as a “son of the manse”, an idiomatic Scottish phrase, similar to the American phrase “preacher’s kid”.
Education
Brown was educated first at Kirkcaldy West Primary School, where he was selected for an experimental fast stream education programme, which took him two years early to Kirkcaldy High School for an academic hothouse education taught in separate classes
Gordon Brown was admitted to the University of Edinburgh to study history at the same early age of 16. During an end-of-term rugby union match at his old school, he received a kick to the head and experienced a retinal detachment.
This left him blind in his left eye, despite treatment including several operations and weeks spent lying in a darkened room. Later at Edinburgh, while playing tennis, he noticed the same symptoms in his right eye. Brown underwent experimental surgery at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and his right eye was saved.
Brown graduated from Edinburgh with an undergraduate MA degree with First-Class Honours in history in 1972. He stayed on to obtain his PhD degree in history, which he gained ten years later in 1982, defending a thesis titled The Labour Party and Political Change in Scotland 1918–1929
Career
From 1976 to 1980 Brown was employed as a lecturer in politics at Glasgow College of Technology. He also worked as a tutor for the Open University.
Brown was elected to Parliament as a Labour MP at his second attempt, for Dunfermline East in the 1983 general election.
Labour leader John Smith died suddenly in May 1994. Brown did not contest the leadership after Tony Blair became the favourite to win the 1994 leadership election, deciding to make way for Blair to avoid splitting the pro-modernising vote in the leadership ballot. It has long been rumoured a deal was struck between Blair and Brown at the former Granita restaurant in Islington, in which Blair promised to give Brown control of economic policy in return for Brown not standing against him in the leadership election
In the 1997 general election, Labour defeated the Conservatives by a landslide to end their 18-year exile from government, and when Tony Blair, the new Prime Minister, announced his ministerial team on 2 May 1997, he appointed Brown as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
After Blair tendered his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II, Brown was invited by the queen to form a government and become Prime Minister on 27 June 2007.
Brown rescinded some of the policies which had been introduced or were planned by Blair’s administration.
Brown announced on 10 May 2010 that he would stand down as Labour Leader, with a view to a successor being chosen before the next Labour Party Conference in September 2010.
The following day, negotiations between the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats to form a coalition government failed, and a Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition agreement was reached. During the evening, Brown visited Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation as Prime Minister to Queen Elizabeth II and to recommend that she invite the Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron, to form a government. He resigned as leader of the Labour Party with immediate effect.
Gordon Brown Net Worth
As of 2025 Gordon Brown net worth is $15 million. Gordon Brown and his wife, Sarah, have maintained a relatively modest lifestyle, especially in comparison to other high-profile political figures. The couple owns several properties, but they are known for avoiding excessive luxury in their real estate choices. Their primary residence is a large, five-bedroom house in North London, which they purchased in 2015 for £2.4 million. The home is located in a quiet, upscale area, offering both privacy and proximity to central London.
