Sir Keir Starmer has appointed Gordon Brown as his “special envoy on global finance” as the struggling premier attempts to bring more experience and economic heft to his misfiring Number 10 operation.
Brown, Labour chancellor from 1997-2007 and prime minister from 2007-2010, has been asked to find ways to use “international finance partnerships” to boost defence spending and help prepare next year’s UK presidency of the G20, Starmer announced on Saturday.
The prime minister, whose Labour Party lost more than 1,000 seats in local elections on Friday, has been accused of lacking depth and experience in Number 10. The hiring of the 75-year-old Brown is intended to show his fraught party that he is determined to get a grip.
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