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News Source: The Independent
| 5 months ago
Mr Gordon Brown's latest best friend is Mr Shaun Woodward, the Northern Ireland secretary. I feel it necessary to append a short description because not many people know who he is. He decamped from the Conservative benches to New Labour where he was...
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News Source: The New Nation
| 5 months ago
The ministers who quit the Gordon Brown cabinet:Caroline Flint: Little more than female window-dressing: John Hutton, James Purnell, Jacqui Smith, Hazel Blears and Geoff Hoon. BBC Online Gordon Brown is waiting to see whether his limited cabinet...
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News Source: BBC
| 5 months ago
Mr Brown responded to the election drubbing and a string of ministerial resignations by vowing he would not "waver nor walk away" and would get on with the job. While acknowledging the council results were "terrible", Mr Bradshaw, the new culture...
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News Source: Sky News
| 5 months ago
UK, Saturday June 06, 2009 Labour rebels are considering their next move after a wounded Gordon Brown has insisted he is determined to hang on in No 10 despite a fracturing of his authority and calls for him to go. Gordon Brown at a press conference...
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News Source: BBC
| 5 months ago
Loyalist backbencher Geraldine Smith, who represents Morecambe and Lunesdale, said Ms Flint had "a bit of a strop" because she had not been offered the promotion she expected. Ms Flint, the MP for Don Valley in South Yorkshire, had appeared on...
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News Source: The Independent
| 5 months ago
On a day of high political drama that threatened to cost him his job, the beleaguered Prime Minister vowed not to "walk away", insisting he was the best man to tackle the economic crisis and clean up politics after the MPs' expenses scandal...There...
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News Source: The Scotsman
| 5 months ago
Monday morning is the maxim doing the rounds among the more excitable Labour rebels. That rebellion is comprised of an unlikely alliance that has come together to try to force a change in leader...From communists to careerists, a bizarre cabal has...
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News Source: The Scotsman
| 5 months ago
Brown's premiership was in its death throes last night after another wave of ministerial resignations and a devastating personal attack by one of his former colleagues. The Prime Minister's attempts to shore up his authority with a Cabinet reshuffle...
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News Source: The Globe & Mail
| 5 months ago
London — Associated Press, Friday, Jun. 05, 2009 01:56PM EDT B ritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown clung fiercely to his job Friday, defying calls from some within his beleaguered Labour party to resign. Mr. Brown told reporters he never even...
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News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| 5 months ago
Gordon Brown vowed to tough it out today as Britain's prime minister after three more members of his cabinet quit and his governing Labour party faced the prospect of an election meltdown. "I will not waver, I will not walk away... I will get on with...