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I am the right person to lead Britain, says Brown
May 15 2008, Alan

Gordon Brown today insisted that he was the right person to lead Britain through difficult economic times.

Responding to a warning from the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, that the economy may be heading into a recession, the prime...

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