Prime Minister Gordon Brown (C), Communities Secretary Hazel Blears (R) and Pensions Secretary James Purnell (L) launch the Jobs Fund for Social Enterprises scheme during a breakfast meeting with young apprentices at 10 Downing Street in London, on May 13, 2009. A British cabinet minister pledged Tuesday to repay thousands of pounds of property tax in the latest fall-out of an expenses row that Prime Minister Gordon Brown said must be met with "extreme" action. Communities Secretary Hazel Blears said she would pay 13,332 pounds (about 20,000 dollars, 15,000 euros) in tax that leaked expenses claims suggested she should have already paid when she sold her London flat in August 2004. Getty Images logo Getty Images 6 months ago

Prime Minister Gordon Brown (C), Communities Secretary Hazel Blears (R) and Pensions Secretary James Purnell (L) launch the Jobs Fund for Social Enterprises scheme during a breakfast meeting with young apprentices at 10 Downing Street in London, on May 13, 2009. A British cabinet minister pledged Tuesday to repay thousands of pounds of property tax in the latest fall-out of an expenses row that Prime Minister Gordon Brown said must be met with "extreme" action. Communities Secretary Hazel Blears said she would pay 13,332 pounds (about 20,000 dollars, 15,000 euros) in tax that leaked expenses claims suggested she should have already paid when she sold her London flat in August 2004.

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