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But in recent years some have been unable to resist offering their support to candidates, particularly in U.S. elections. Former Labour premier Gordon Brown was criticised by Republicans after he heaped praise on Barack Obama for President in a...
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Bob Ainsworth, who was Gordon Brown’s defence secretary from 2009 to 2010, said there was a risk the government’s failures would mean British firms would lose out on exports. But international security minister Gerald Howarth said the current...
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As a Labour minister, Ms Hodge may forget it was Gordon Brown's first New Deal scheme in 1997 that accelerated A4e's expansion out of Sheffield with initial contacts worth £80m. Termination fees worth tens of millions in the Treasury's switch from...
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BROKEN PROMISE 2: Stopping hospital closures Promise made: David Cameron made hospital closures a key battleground for the election, promising a ‘bare knuckle fight’ with Gordon Brown: David Cameron has promised a "bare knuckle fight" with Prime...
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Needless to say, this initiative has been condemned by the usual suspects as ‘racist’ and against EU rules. I don’t remember the Labour conference booing Gordon Brown when he promised to create ‘British jobs for British workers’. Despite his jingoistic...
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Mr Lansley had to walk around her to get into the meeting with health chiefs, where he discussed plans to encourage more competition in the NHS. The incident was described on Twitter as Mr Lansley’s “Duffy moment” — a reference to the time Gordon Brown...
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Richard Dawkins must be grateful that the Guardian have not got their talons into him. And shock horror but cutting spending on the NHS by 20 billion was Gordon Brown’s policy. Toynbee I think is in need of psychiatric care – whats the waiting time? ...
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NHS hospitals led, the report concludes, to “moderate but statistically significant” reductions in patients’ length of stay in hospital. The gains in efficiency of seven to nine per cent produced what the report describes as “non-trivial savings”. ...
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The allegations against Smith highlight growing concern over computer hacking. Met officers are known to have approached leading members of the Labour party as possible victims, including Gordon Brown, the former No 10 communications chief Alastair...
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It was described on Twitter as Mr Lansley's 'Duffy moment' in reference to the time Gordon Brown was overheard branding pensioner Gillian Duffy a bigoted woman after she challenged him on immigration. Later, a tearful Mrs Hautot said: “He needs...
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Photograph: Carl de Souza/Reuters Bill Clinton; a previous lecturer at the Yorkshire business bash. Photograph: VALDRIN XHEMAJ/EPA The Dalai Lama is paying his first visit in over 15 years to northern England this summer, topping the bill at the annual...
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The BBC’s editorial complaints unit upheld criticisms of the show and ruled that it reinforced stereotypes. In February 2009, Clarkson famously called then-prime minister Gordon Brown a 'one-eyed Scottish idiot' and in November the previous year, the...
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The BBC's editorial complaints unit upheld criticisms of the show and ruled that it reinforced stereotypes. In February 2009, Clarkson famously called then-prime minister Gordon Brown a "one-eyed Scottish idiot" and in November the previous year, the...
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EU regulations mean stringent fines for failing to report emissions of CO2, the main pollutant warming the Earth. SEPA handed the fine to the Scottish Government for use on environmental projects. But local MP, former prime minister Gordon Brown,...
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In a revealing interview, the Labour peer told how his childhood experience of his parents’ messy divorce prepared him to act as middleman in the tempestuous relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He confessed his own failings as a father...
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Harriet Harman has warned David Cameron not to exploit the London Olympics for political gain. She says: ‘He would be out of touch with the mood of the nation if he sought to.’ Like Tony Blair, Ken Livingstone, Gordon Brown and Boris Johnson before...
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The language clearly shows the utter disrespect the US had for the bungling Brown. They refer to his 'abysmal track record' and describe him as lurching 'from political disaster to disaster.' I have reposted it in full below. The bold highlights are mine.
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The Liberal Democrats were down one on 10%. The Labour peer was appearing on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on Sunday morning. He told presenter Kirsty Young that he had to frequently resolve spats between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown when the two...
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"That's why in the last two months alone the IMF, the IFS and the governor of the Bank of England have said the Government should stick to this plan. "But Ed Balls has clearly learnt nothing from his time as Gordon Brown's right-man. He wants billions...
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It will be an atrocious and wilful waste of something very valuable, which has developed over centuries and could be wrecked within a few years. There will be vulgar Englishmen who say we are better off without paying subsidies to the Scots, better off...
About Gordon Brown
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James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British Labour politician, who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party between 2007 and 2010. Brown became Prime Minister in June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming leader of the governing Labour Party. Immediately before this... Full Article
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