FORMER Prime Minister Gordon Brown will visit Oxford next month.

He will give the inaugural Howard Wilson Lecture at Jesus College on November 20.

It will be entitled Purpose in Politics: Hope in the 21st Century and will be held from 7pm in the college's Sheldonian Theatre.

Gordon Brown was the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 until 2007, when he replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister. He was Prime Minister from 2007 until 2010.

Admission is free for Oxford University students and staff and £5 for members of the public.