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• By-election win ‘endorses Brown’

  
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  Labour hail their win in the Glasgow North East by-election as an endorsement of Prime Minister Gordon Browns policies.
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• Gordon Brown is over it

  
  Queer Sighted — Authority: 435
  Filed under: News News - UK LGBT charity Stonewall has recruited new high-profile people to support their Education for All campaign, which tackles homophobic bullying in schools. The household names such as PM Gordon Brown and singer Beverley Knight have spoken out ... Read more   Permalink  |  Email this ...
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• G20 nations agree to continue stimulus, split on financial transactions tax

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 796
  Filed under: Economy , Investing Markets soared worldwide following the announcement of the decision by the G20 finance leaders to maintain stimulus measures as long as U.S. employment figures remained weak. They agreed the stimulus is needed until the recovery is assured. But G20 members were split on how to ...
  5 days ago

• UK PM apologises over mis-spelt letter

  
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  Gordon Brown apologises to a mother after apparently misspelling the name of her dead soldier son in a letter.
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• Transaction tax - no thanks!

  
  Birmingham Post - Business Blog — Authority: 467
  Unpalatable, unreasonable, ridiculous and unfair are words that might be used to describe the idea that a form of transaction tax on banking and financial market deals might be imposed throughout G20 member states. Dont worry - it wont happen and for that we must give a huge vote of thanks to US Treasury Secretary, ...
  5 days ago

• PM contacts bereaved mother after mis-spelling name (AFP)

  
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  AFP – Prime Minister Gordon Brown has personally contacted the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan to assure her that he meant no offence when he mis-spelt her surname in a letter of condolence, Downing Street said on Monday. More: (AFP)"> (AFP)">PM contacts bereaved mother after ...
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• Mother attacks PM sympathy letter

  
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  No 10 defends the way Gordon Brown writes to bereaved families after a dead soldiers mother said he misspelled her sons name.
  6 days ago

• UK joins G20 push for world levy on banks (Reuters)

  
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  Reuters – Britain threw its weight on Saturday behind proposals to impose a global levy on banks to fund future bailouts and called on the G20 to work toward a $100 billion deal to meet the cost of climate change. Go here to see the original:  (Reuters)"> (Reuters)">UK joins G20 push for ...
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• Brown urges new banks ‘contract’

  
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  UK PM Gordon Brown tells a G20 summit there should be a new social contract with world banks to make them more responsible.
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• Karzai could lose West’s support, Brown warns (AFP)

  
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  AFP – The West could withdraw support for Afghan President Hamid Karzai if he fails to live up to its expectations during his second term, Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned on Friday. More: (AFP)"> (AFP)">Karzai could lose West’s support, Brown warns (AFP)
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• British PM warns Karzai could lose West’s support (AFP)

  
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  AFP – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Friday that the West could withdraw support for Afghan President Hamid Karzai if he fails to live up to its expectations in his second term in power. See more here:  (AFP)"> (AFP)">British PM warns Karzai could lose West’s support (AFP)
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• Afghan mission to go on, says UK PM

  
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  The UK will not be "deterred, dissuaded or diverted" from its Afghan mission, despite risks to troops, Gordon Brown says.
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• Brown says Taliban shot UK soldiers

  
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  The Taliban have said they carried out the fatal shooting of five UK soldiers in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown tells MPs.
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• RBS and Lloyds in major shake-up

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 459
  Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group are to sell off many bank branches to appease competition concerns. Go here to read the rest: RBS and Lloyds in major shake-up
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• Five Things We Learned at the European Summit

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 814
  Filed under: Foreign Policy , Woman Up , International A few weeks back, I posted about some incipient trouble brewing within the EU. Late last week, European leaders met for a two-day summit to push forward on a number of those procedural and policy issues. Here are five noteworthy things to come out of that ...
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• On your bike, Tony

  
  WalesOnline - 0725 to Paddington — Authority: 123
  Tony Blairs ascension to the position of President of the European Council has just dominated a Brussels press conference held by Gordon Brown and David Miliband. Mr Brown thinks his old rival would be an "excellent" President, if he wants it when the laborious process of ratifying the Lisbon Treaty finally comes to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Indian president set to meet PM in UK state visit (AFP)

  
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  AFP – Indian President Pratibha Patil is expected to meet Prime Minister Gordon Brown on day two Wednesday of her state visit to former colonial power Britain aimed in part at boosting trade links. View post:  (AFP)"> (AFP)">Indian president set to meet PM in UK state visit (AFP)
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• UK Dig Britain MP: Internet is an “Essential Service”

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 456
  Stephen Timms highlights its important social, commercial, and economic benefits, but doesn’t say why it’s still okay to disconnect entire households under a three-strikes regime where the most egregious file-sharers – for whom the law would intended – can easily elude copyright holders anyways. The UK’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Racing on TV? Gordon Browns too busy with the world

  
  Racing blog - Sport - Mirror.co.uk — Authority: 135
  So, the Government this week refused to get involved in the campaign to save racing on the BBC. Are you really surprised? The move to stop Auntie scaling down its coverage of our sport - no more than 13 meetings are due to be shown next year - is laudable. Just shy of 10,000 people signed the petition on the ...
  3 weeks ago

• How times change

  
  WalesOnline - 0725 to Paddington — Authority: 123
  August 28 2008 Chancellor Alistair Darlings remark that the recession is the worst Britain has seen for 60 years causes consternation for Number 10, which had been insisting on a less dramatic tone when answering questions on the downturn. The remarks derail Gordon Browns autumn fightback, intended to start 48 ...
  3 weeks ago

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