Is Gordon Brown Scottish

Answer 1

British prime minister Gordon Brown is from the nation of Scotland. Scotland is a member nation of the supra-national state called The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, usually Great Britain, Britain, the United Kingdom or just the UK for short. England and Wales, Northern Ireland are the other national constituents of the United Kingdom. Thus it is a state made up of nations--not regions. So Scotsman Brown is the prime minister over 45 million Englishmen as well as his own 5.5 million fellow Scots, 2.5 million Welsh, and 2 million Northern Irish.

Calling Brown the prime minister of England is just plain wrong useage. Note that Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland do have their own parliaments. Scotland's parliament has tax-raising authority, a legal system based on Roman (and not English Common) Law, and an educational system with a separate history and evolution from England. Brown may be British prime minister, but he is not the Scottish prime minister, sometimes called first minister to avoid confusion.