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By Steven Swinford 11:16AM GMT 30 Nov 2010
In August 2009 when he was prime minister, Mr Brown attempted to strike a deal during a face-to-face meeting with the US ambassador, arguing that Mr McKinnon’s medical condition meant he would commit suicide..
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Pakistan’s president, Asif Zardari, arrives for an official visit to the UK on Tuesday with a continuing storm back home over David Cameron’s comments about...
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced today that he will ask the Labour Party to organize a leadership election so that he can be replaced. Brown said that he...
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Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is set to hold talks with his MPs as he weighs up the offer of a power-sharing deal with the Conservatives.
More than a day after...
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Britain’s two main parties were locked in a power struggle Friday after an inconclusive election – with Labour’s Gordon Brown suggesting he would try to...
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Britain’s bedraggled Prime Minister Gordon Brown waltzed into a political train wreck Wednesday after forgetting to turn off his microphone. He described a loyal...
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A week ago, most people in Britain considered Nick Clegg, the “little-known leader” of the Liberal Democrats, to be, by all measures, a long shot to become...
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Britain is emerging from the recession with one of the weakest economies in the industrialised world as a direct result of Gordon Brown’s spending binges,...
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Britain’s governing Labour Party fired a candidate in the national election Friday after he made offensive and profane comments about his political foes on his...
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Zuma’s not having a good time of it, is he? First of all he asked the English Prime Minister to lift targeted sanctions on Mugabe and his goons and was refused....
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For generations Dover has stood as an indomitable symbol of Britain’s freedom and independence.
The town, with its white cliffs, port and sprawling castle stood at...
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A deal between NI’s biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Fein, could see policing and justice powers devolved to Northern Ireland on 12 April.
A cross-community...
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Taliban fighters will be handed jobs and free homes under plans to crush the insurgency in Afghanistan.
Even Mullah Omar, their fugitive leader, could be rewarded with...
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Tom James’s heroic decision to attend a comrade’s funeral despite his own horrific injuries from Afghanistan inspired the nation.
The 20-year-old fusilier is...
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BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown has received a pre-election kick in the pants: he has been named the worst-dressed man of the year by the British edition of GQ...
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An agreement to limit global warming to a 3.6F (2C) temperature rise, alongside a $100 billion a year in aid from 2020, were condemned as inadequate by some delegates...
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Prince Charles and Gordon Brown were accused last night of ‘green hypocrisy’ after jetting into Copenhagen to lecture the world about global warming.
Charles used...
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Gordon Brown has brought forward his arrival in Copenhagen to tomorrow night in order to be seen to be the first major world leader to join the climate summit.
Ed...
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At an EU summit in Brussels, the Prime Minister offered to pay the money into an EU fund intended to help poorer countries to cut their carbon emissions.
The offer...
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At least 37 BBC executives earn more than the Prime Minister, it was revealed yesterday, as the corporation disclosed the scale of its senior salaries for the first...
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown, was forced to apologise to the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan after he spelt her son’s name wrong in a letter of...
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Mr. Brown announced in the House of Commons on Wednesday that the increase depends on a number of conditions, including a North Atlantic Treaty Organization strategy...
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The Financial Times today has published a full-page account of the development of Gordon Brown’s bank rescue plan, which is worth reading for many reasons, but...
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A fire sale of public assets will be announced by Gordon Brown today to help cut the Government’s mounting deficit.
The Tote, the Dartford crossing, the student...
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown refused a major Afghanistan troop reinforcement against the military’s advice, the former head of the Army has said.
Gen Sir Richard...
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Britain faces being sidelined from a new elite club of economic powers being set up by Barack Obama.
The U.S. president wants to establish a top table of powerful...
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Poor old Gordon Brown. His joy at being given a World Statesman of the Year award must have been severely tempered by having to deny he’s been snubbed by Barack...
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However, the US president is planning to hold personal meetings with the leaders of Russia, China and Japan.
The decision follows anger in America over the release of...
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They were Tony Blair’s not-so-secret weapon in his landslide victory in 1997. But now women voters appear to be turning their backs on Labour under his successor...
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Gordon Brown is being given until the autumn to turn Labour’s fortunes around in the wake of another by-election disaster.
The Conservatives romped home...
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Gordon Brown has admitted that he has been “hurt” by the personal attacks on him during the failed attempt to oust him this month, and said that he might...
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With the increasing corruption in the government and MPs misusing the taxpayers hard earned money for their own comforts; the system needs to be changed. This is what...
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Corrupt MPs would be expelled from Parliament under emergency moves to be unveiled within weeks to rebuild trust in Westminster following the Commons expenses...
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Gordon Brown’s political survival hung in the balance today as Labour suffered a devastating rout in the European elections.
The party was beaten into third...
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With polls showing support for the ruling Labour party at historic lows amid revelations about parliamentarians’ expenses, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown vowed...
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In 1982 it was a war in the South Atlantic. In 2009 it has been moats, manure and the flipping of houses. Different mechanism, same outcome: the economy has been taken...
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Gordon Brown’s authority took another battering yesterday when he suffered his first Commons defeat as Prime Minister amid growing criticism of his leadership by...
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