...most precious asset of all is confidence, and it's something that has been lost in recent weeks,'' UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said after an earlier meeting at the Elysée Palace. Now it ``is something that we will restore through coordinated intervention...
...fall a further 20 per cent. The crisis is seeing more than 1,500 British jobs lost each day. The new deal in Europe came after Gordon Brown told leaders of the 15 eurozone countries the details of Britains Å500billion rescue package and how it could be used...
...had lax financial regulations over the past ten years which are suffering the most, and that is thanks to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Chancellor Alistair Darling. CALUM STEWART Montague Street Edinburgh Unlike Scotland, small independent Norway, with...
...Brown travelled to Paris for a meeting of eurozone countries in an imposing mood. Continental leaders were anxious to hear the British Prime Minister's advice on the financial crisis with a view to applying similar solutions to those adopted by the British...
...the casual observer, Gordon Brown could have been the guest of honour. There were smiles, handshakes and slaps on the back for Britain's Prime Minister as French President Nicolas Sarkozy welcomed him to the Ãlysée Palace in Paris. Watched by a guard of honour,...
...to see: "Economic crisis â good news for the government." But the global banking degringolade has taken the pressure off Gordon Brown. He has two advantages. First, his body language is good in a crisis. Second, no one blames him for causing it. The voters...
...refloat and partially nationalise banks adopted by Britain last week. Leaders of the 15 euroland countries â accompanied by Gordon Brown â cast aside the divisions of recent days and came up with what President Nicolas Sarkozy called a "co-ordinated and ambitious"...
...decade? Mr Peston, with his journalistic brilliance and boundless energy, has almost literally cornered this story. After Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, he has become the most important man in the financial crisis. He often operates from home, where he...
...were using the same laws to spy on parents who were suspected of trying to obtain school places they were not entitled to. Gordon Brown is now using anti-terror laws against Iceland to protect British savers' cash. None of the above can be described as terrorism....
...way for any devoted Strictly Come Dancing fan to pay homage to Bruce Forsyth (80) and raise a couple of little frowns for Gordon Brown. Two matching themes go in parallel here. One is the reality gap between running a TV hit show and running a government....