“Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.”

— Gordon Brown

Colin Wills, "'This will be a big change in my life .. politics is now less important' says new dad Gordon Brown", Sunday Mirror, 30 December, 2001, p. 4.
Press conference on the birth of his first daughter, Jennifer Jane Brown, 29 December 2001; she died nine days later.
Chancellor of the Exchequer

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