Editing Gordon Brown (section)

===Career before Parliament===
From 1976 to 1980 Brown was employed as a lecturer in politics at [[Glasgow College of Technology]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 June 2004 |title=Gordon Brown timeline |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3809861.stm |url-status=live |access-date=23 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080325075527/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3809861.stm |archive-date=25 March 2008}}</ref> He also worked as a tutor for the [[Open University]].<ref>{{cite web |date=10 September 2007 |title=Gordon Brown's TUC speech in full (to the 2007 TUC Congress) |url=http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2007/9/10/gordon-brown-s-tuc-speech-in-full |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322002841/http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2007/9/10/gordon-brown-s-tuc-speech-in-full |archive-date=22 March 2012 |access-date=13 April 2010 |publisher=politics.co.uk}}</ref> In the [[1979 United Kingdom general election|1979 general election]], Brown stood for the [[Edinburgh South (UK Parliament constituency)|Edinburgh South]] constituency, losing to the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] candidate, [[Michael Ancram]].<ref name=bbb/>

From 1980, he worked as a journalist at [[Scottish Television]], later serving as current affairs editor until his election to Parliament in 1983.<ref name="GBStory">{{Cite news |last=Wheeler |first=Brian |date=27 June 2007 |title=The Gordon Brown story |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6743875.stm |url-status=live |access-date=11 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703221955/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6743875.stm |archive-date=3 July 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Newsinger |first=John |author-link=John Newsinger |date=Summer 2007 |title=Brown's Journey from Reformism to Neoliberalism |url=http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=334&issue=115 |journal=[[International Socialism]] |issue=115 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101225846/http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=334&issue=115 |archive-date=1 January 2009}}</ref>