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UK change of heart on banking tax plan
London :: United Kingdom | about 8 hours ago
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The US led a backlash against the “Tobin tax” on financial transactions after Mr Brown took a Group of 20 finance ministers’ meeting by surprise with his proposal at the gathering in St Andrews, Scotland. In private briefings, UK officials had initially...
Tags: Gordon Brown, financial transaction, prime minister, transaction tax, finance minister, banks tax, India, St Andrews, tobin tax, Mr Brown
Jogging Brown follows other world leaders
Brisbane :: Australia | about 14 hours ago
Credibility Prime Minister Gordon Brown has joined other world leaders in taking up jogging as part of a new exercise regime. Mr Brown, 58, can be spotted running through St James's Park, Green Park and Hyde Park in central London for about half an hour each morning...
Tags: Gordon Brown, Mr Brown
Brown fails to rally 'Tobin tax' allies
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility That appeared to be the question facing Gordon Brown on Saturday when he gate-crashed the Group of 20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors...Attempt the most daunting spin operation, simultaneously giving different messages to many...
Tags: Treasurer Wayne Swan, Gordon Brown, finances ministers, climate change, Scotland, Indian, St Andrews, Mr Brown, Australia
Warning on public Afghan support
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility Public backing is "crucial" to military success in Afghanistan, a top British commander has warned as a poll suggests support for the mission is ebbing away. The survey for the BBC's Politics Show found 64% of Britons believe the war is "unwinnable",...
Tags: Afghanistan, Gordon Brown, prime minister, lord guthrie, Guthrie, Task Force Helmand, defence chiefs
Brown Warns Afghan Leader on Corruption
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 days ago
Credibility In unusually harsh terms reflecting international frustration with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan , Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday that the Kabul government would forfeit its right to support against the Taliban insurgency if it failed...
Tags: Afghanistan, Mr Brown, Hamid Karzai, Gordon Brown, prime minister, defence chiefs
UN relocates Afghanistan staff to secure housing
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 days ago
Credibility Afghanistan — The Taliban scored another propaganda victory Thursday when the UN decided to relocate more than half of its foreign workers from Afghanistan because it had become too dangerous for them to continue to work there. The announcement of "short-term...
Tags: Gordon Brown, Afghanistan, Mr Brown, Helmand, prime minister, Britain, helmand province, U.N., public support, British Ministry of Defense
Afghan policeman shoots dead five UK soldiers
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 days ago
Credibility An Afghan policeman has shot dead five British soldiers at a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, the defense ministry in London said on Wednesday. The men, three from the Grenadier Guards and two from the Royal Military Police, were shot in Helmand province...
Tags: Afghanistan, afghans policeman, British, afghans police, Helmand Province, Gordon Brown, afghans war, asylum seekers, control immigration, Taliban
Scientific adviser backs sacked drug 'tsar'
London :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
Credibility The Government’s chief scientific adviser said today that he agreed with the sacked drugs “tsar” Professor David Nutt when he said that cannabis is less dangerous than alcohol and cigarettes. Professor John Beddington, the most senior scientific adviser...
Tags: David Nutt, Alan Johnson, professor david, John Beddington, Prof Nutt, scientific adviser, drug adviser, professor john, THE UK, Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown ponders life after he leaves high office
London :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
Credibility Gordon Brown has said he wants to get involved in charitable work when he leaves office, rather than go on the lecture tour. In an interview with Piers Morgan for GQ magazine Mr Brown said he was "shy by nature rather than extrovert."...In it Mr Brown...
Tags: Gordon Brown, Mr Brown, expenses scandal, Piers Morgan
EU presidency trio lays claim to political power
Brussels :: Belgium | 6 days ago
Credibility Leaders of the countries next in line to take on the day-to-day running of the European Union have made it clear that they do not wish to be sidelined by any future EU president...His Hungarian counterpart Gordon Bajnai said "more time" is needed to "decide...
Tags: European Union, David Miliband, eu presidency, Tony Blair, prime minister, Gordon Brown
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