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News Source: Guardian Unlimited
| 5 months ago
Gordon Brown is being urged by cabinet colleagues to regain the initiative on political renewal by pushing through laws that will impose an elected second chamber before the next general election. There are also signs that more cabinet members are...
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News Source: Kuwait Times
| 5 months ago
Embattled British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sought yesterday to draw a line under his most tumultuous week since taking office after facing down angry rebels who threatened to oust him. A smiling Brown gathered his newly reshuffled cabinet for its...
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News Source: BBC
| 5 months ago
Prime Minister Gordon Brown will announce plans for a new Westminster voting system, the BBC understands. He will unveil an alternative vote system to choose MPs to replace the first past the post method, BBC political editor Nick Robinson said. Mr...
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News Source: Daily Nation
| 5 months ago
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s new Cabinet rallied round him on Tuesday, vowing to help win the next election. Labour suffered its worst poll results in a national vote since 1910 this week, slumping to third place in European elections. A...
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News Source: The independent
| 5 months ago
The Labour Party does not want a new leader, there is no vacancy, there is no challenger. "The leading contender, Alan Johnson, is backing the Prime Minister to the hilt.
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News Source: Times Online
| 5 months ago
The Labour Party does not want a new leader, there is no vacancy, there is no challenger. The leading contender, Alan Johnson, is backing the Prime Minister to the hilt...James Purnell, the former Work and Pensions Secretary whose resignation last...
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News Source: The Observer
| 5 months ago
David Miliband insisted today that the parliamentary Labour party was backing Gordon Brown and that the "leading candidate", Alan Johnson , had no intention of challenging the prime minister. The foreign secretary told BBC Radio 4's Today, that the...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
The threat to the Prime Minister appeared to recede after he faced down a putative uprising at a crunch meeting of Labour MPs last night. Mr Miliband, who is regarded as a likely successor to Mr Brown, said today he had never considered following...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
Gordon Brown has received 'overwhelming support' from members of his ruling Labour Party at a crucial meeting, participants say. The meeting came in the wake of a leadership crisis that last week saw a string of high-profile ministerial resignations,...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
Instead, despite Labour’s horrific showing in the European elections, no one had the guts to organise a concerted bid to oust the Prime Minister. In a committee room of the House of Commons, Mr Brown faced down the critics. He listened to their...