{"id":446,"date":"2026-05-09T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:42:00","slug":"starmer-brings-in-gordon-brown-and-harriet-harman-to-ease-pressure-on-him-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Starmer brings in Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman to ease pressure on him to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brown to advise on global finance, while Harman will focus on social and economic improvements for women and girls<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/may\/09\/may-elections-results-keir-starmer-labour-nigel-farage-reform-uk-politics-latest-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/ng-interactive\/2026\/may\/07\/local-elections-2026-may-full-results-england-scotland-wales\">Full results from England, Scotland and Wales<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keir Starmer has brought in Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman as advisers in a move to ease the mounting pressure on the prime minister to resign after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/may\/08\/keir-starmer-under-pressure-to-agree-exit-plan-after-election-mauling\">disastrous election results<\/a> for Labour.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, the former prime minister and long-serving chancellor under Tony Blair, has been made Starmer\u2019s envoy on global finance, with a brief to advise on financial partnerships to help with defence-related investments, particularly with Europe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/may\/09\/starmer-brings-gordon-brown-harriet-harman-ease-pressure-resign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown to advise on global finance, while Harman will focus on social and economic improvements for women and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}