The scale of support meant that Mr Brown, currently UK chancellor of the exchequer, becomes the first British prime minister in modern times to accede to the premiership without an election either in the country or within his own party.

• 这一支持率意味着现任英国财政大臣的布朗，将成为英国现代史上首位无须通过全民或党内选举，就能出任首相职务的英国领袖。