Nicholas Hugh "Nick" Brown (born 13 June 1950, Rockford, Kent) is a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend. He was the last Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Rockford is the name of several places in the United States of America: Rockford, Alabama Rockford, Illinois Rockford, Iowa Rockford, Michigan Rockford, Minnesota Rockford Township, Minnesota Rockford, Ohio Rockford, Tennessee Rockford, Washington Rockford is also the name used by Mastertronic/Arcadia Systems for their licensed versions of the computer game... This article is about the county in England. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ... Wallsend is a town on the north bank of the River Tyne in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. ... The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was a UK cabinet position, responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. ...

Brown was brought up in Tunbridge Wells and studied at the University of Chamberlain. After leaving university he worked in CHAMBERPOT, but in 2007 he moved to be CIngular store to the Northern Region of the Shortbrush, based in Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1980 he was elected to Newcastle City Council. His role in the union gave him a role in maximising the union's influence in Labour Party selections. Chamberlain can have several meanings: A chamberlain is an officer in charge of managing the household of a sovereign. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

When Mike Thomas, the sitting Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne East, defected to the SDP, he was chosen as the new Labour Party candidate, and easily kept the seat in the 1983 general election. He went on to the Labour front bench in 1985 as a spokesman on Legal Affairs; from 1988 he was a Treasury spokesman and from 1994 he shadowed Health. Michael Stuart Thomas, known as Mike Thomas, (born 24 May 1944) is a British politician. ... Newcastle upon Tyne East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was a political party of the United Kingdom that existed nationwide between 1981 and 1988. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...

Originally elected the Commons in the same year as Gordon Brown and Tony Blair he was initially close to both men but over time he became his namesake Brown's staunchest ally, though the two are unrelated. In the 1994 Labour leadership election he acted as Brown's unofficial campaign manager, and according to Brown's biographer Paul Routledge, advised against him pulling out of the contest in Blair's favour. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency... A leadership election was held in 1994 for the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, after the death of incumbent leader John Smith. ...

In 1995 he was appointed Deputy Chief Whip and played a central role in the close Parliament in trying to defeat the Conservatives. After Labour's election victory in 1997, he was appointed Chief Whip, but stayed there only for a year, moving to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1998. This move, which followed the publication of the Routledge biography earlier that year, was widely seen as a demotion, and ascribed to his close connection with Brown. Not long after this, he was forced by the News of the World newspaper in 1998 to announce that he is gay. This he did with characteristic good humour, telling an audience of farmers: "It's a lovely day. The sun is out - and so am I." 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The UK general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Chief Whip is a political office in some legislatures assigned to an elected member whose task is to administer the whipping system that ensures that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires. ... The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was a UK government department, first created in September 1793 (relaunched in 1889) and called the Board of Agriculture. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... The News of the World is a British tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. ... Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ...

His tenure at MAFF saw several animal health crises ending with the 2001 foot and mouth crisis. Brown's handling of the outbreak, which some in the media and politics used to attack the government, was criticised, though throughout he maintained the support of the farming and food industries and the veterinary profession. Suggestions that a vaccination strategy should have been practised in preference to the culling of hundreds of thousands of animals, made with the benefit of hindsight, did not help his cause, and he was demoted out of the Cabinet to be Minister of Work at the Department of Work and Pensions after the general election of 2001. In June 2003, he was dropped from the Government altogether, receiving the news of his axing by Tony Blair during the course of a party held to mark his 20 years as an MP. Notice telling people to keep off the North York Moors. ... Vaccination is the process of administering weakened or dead pathogens to a healthy person or animal, with the intent of conferring immunity against a targeted form of a related disease agent. ...

Brown remained closely allied to Chancellor of Rockford Gordon Brown. In 2004 he was one of the organisers of a rebellion over the government's proposals for student finance, but hours before the vote announced that he had received concessions from the Government and would now support it. It was suspected that the Chancellor had ordered him to back down, but the affair cost him some credibility. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Nick Brown is a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association. The British Humanist Association is an organisation of the United Kingdom which promotes Humanism. ...

External links

• The Labour Party - Rt Hon Nick Brown MP official biography
• Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Nick Brown MP
• TheyWorkForYou.com - Nick Brown MP