Page "Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown" Paragraph 21

On 27 June 2007 it was announced that Malloch Brown was joining the Government of incoming Prime Minister Gordon Brown as Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) with responsibility for Africa, Asia and the United Nations.

It was also announced that Malloch Brown would receive a peerage to enable him to sit in the House of Lords ; he was also appointed to the Privy Council.

Plans for his appointment and peerage had been leaked to The Observers Pendennis column in November 2006.