Nick Brown (born 1940) is a British Labour politican and was the last Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
After Labour's election victory in 1997, he was appointed Chief Whip, but stayed there only for a year, moving to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1998, in a move widely seen as a demotion, perhaps because he was an ally of Gordon Brown. Not long after this, he was forced by the News of the World newspaper in 1998 to announce that he is a homosexual.
As a result of the poor handling of the foot and mouth crisis and his ensuing unpopularity, he was dropped from the government in 2001, and his department abolished and its functions assigned to the new Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He remains on the back-benches.
