Gordon Brown MP

Gordon Brown MP is a long serving Labour MP, Chief Whip and labour's shadow secretary of state for justice and shadow lord chancellor (Appointed May 2004) serving in the Shadow cabinets of many leaders including Neil Kinnock, Harold wilson and tony blair (where he served as chancellor) until 2002 when health issues sent him to the backbenches. Returning he was made labour chief whip.

Career
Joining Parliament in 1963 he was made a junior minister in the Wilson government, by 1971 he was a cabinet minister. He served as a cabinet/Shadow minister in all subsequent labour leaderships and as chancellor under blair, he declined to run in the 2001 leadership contest, he planned to remain on labour's front bench until health issues in 2002 sent him to the backbenches. He later returned as labour chief whip.

Personal Life
He was born 1942.A close friend of the former chancellor and labour leader John Bercow who mentored him at the start of his career. His parents and wife died in a 1991 plane crash. He was later made godfather to John bercow's child and grandchild.