Originally Posted By: Faldage
 Originally Posted By: Wikipedia
Gordon Brown was born in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland,[6][7] although media[8][9] have occasionally given his place of birth as Giffnock, Renfrewshire, where his parents were living at the time.


I know he's a Scot. That's the accent I grew up with all around me. His voice seems to have forgotten that inconvenient truth.


He sounds like a lowland Scot to me, though one educated at private schools I guess. But then I haven't listened to him much.