Brown to advise on global finance, while Harman will focus on social and economic improvements for women and girls UK politics live – latest updates Full results from England, Scotland and Wales 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 disastrous election results for Labour. Brown, the former prime minister and long-serving chancellor under Tony Blair, has been made Starmer’s envoy on global finance, with a brief to advise on financial partnerships to help with defence-related investments, particularly with Europe. Continue reading...