Gordon Brown's Downing Street career in pictures

Gordon Brown and Tony Blair in 1994. A leadership election was held on 21 July that year for the Labour party after the sudden death of incumbent leader John Smith
Photograph: Tim Rooke/Rex Features

Gordon Brown as chancellor holding aloft the new budget box in 1997 as he leaves Downing Street to hand down the first Labour budget in 18 years
Photograph: David Giles/PA

Applause for Gordon Brown after his speech at the Labour conference in 1998
Photograph: Don McPhee/The Guardian

Gordon Brown as chancellor in 2001
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Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in the Labour party bus on the way to Harlow during the June 2001 campaign
Photograph: Adrian Dennis/EPA

Gordon Brown and Sarah Macaulay after their wedding in a small private ceremony held at his home in North Queensferry, Fife, in July 2001
Photograph: David Cheskin/PA

Gordon Brown on a 2002 visit to Scotland where he encouraged families to claim the new child tax credit and working tax credit
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Reuters

Gordon Brown emerges from the Treasury building on his way to parliament on 9 June 2003 to announce Britain would not join the euro
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Tony Blair as prime minister with Gordon Brown and ice creams during a visit to a park in 2005
Photograph: Peter Nicholls/PA

Gordon Brown holds the red dispatch box as he leaves Downing Street to deliver the budget on 22 March 2006
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Gordon Brown at his home in North Queensferry in April 2007
Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Gordon Brown became prime minister on 27 June 2007 after Tony Blair resigned. He is pictured speaking outside No 10 watched by his wife, Sarah
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Gordon Brown talks with British troops at their base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on 2 October 2007
Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/Reuters

Gordon Brown with the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, at a press conference in Paris in October 2008 after meetings to devise bailout packages for ailing banks
Photograph: Gerard Cerles/AFP/Getty Images

Gordon Brown and the US president, Barack Obama, at No 10 on 1 April 2009
Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA

Gordon Brown addresses the media outside 10 Downing Street on 10 May 2010. Brown announced he intended to stand down as Labour leader and his party would hold formal talks inviting the Liberal Democrats to join them in forming a government
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On Tuesday 11 May, Gordon Brown announces his resignation as prime minister, ending 13 years of Labour government and clearing the way for the leader of the opposition to form government. Brown also resigns as Labour leader with immediate effect
Photograph: Graeme Robertson