Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown MP (born 20 February 1951) is leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Brown assumed office in June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming leader of the governing Labour Party. Before this, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour government from 1997 to 2007 under Blair. Brown has a PhD in history from the University of Edinburgh and... read more
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Cameron: The random ambushes of life can make or break a PM | Mark Lawson
From The Guardian Dated 9 September 2010 The kind of loss Cameron suffered this week will cause great private grief but nothing that happens to a leader is ever neutralWhile he would not have wished for this distinction, David Cameron has just become the first British prime...
Cameron's 'nudge unit' aims to improve economic behaviour
From The Guardian Dated 9 September 2010 Cabinet office team will look at how to create environments that help people choose what's best for themselves and societyA "nudge unit" set up by David Cameron in the Cabinet Office is working on how to use behavioural economics and...
Our 'war on drugs' has been an abysmal failure. Just look at Mexico
From The Guardian Dated 9 September 2010 It is wrecking the government of Mexico. It is financing the Taliban in Afghanistan. It is throwing 11,000 Britons into jail. It is corrupting democracy throughout Latin America. It is devastating the ghettoes of America and propagating Aids in urban...
Welcome to my dream school
From The Guardian Dated 9 September 2010 The government is encouraging us to set up our own 'free schools'. One former teacher imagines what his would be likeThe Richard Dawkins Humanist Conservatoire is so far only a gleam in my eye, but once someone rich...
Nick Clegg announces cross-party talks on funding
From The Observer Dated 9 September 2010 Deputy prime minister says he wants to end reliance on wealthy donors and increase public grants to partiesNick Clegg has announced cross-party talks to overhaul the way political parties are funded. The aim, he said, was to end the reliance...
David Cameron pays tribute to 'amazing' father
From The Guardian Dated 9 September 2010 Prime minister issues statement following sudden death of his father yesterdayDavid Cameron paid tribute to his "amazing" father today, describing him as a "life-enhancer" who had "touched a lot of lives in lots of different ways".The prime minister was at...
CNN regelt Nachfolge: Brite wird Amerikas neuer Talkshow-König
From Der Spiegel Dated 9 September 2010 Breites Grinsen statt breiter Hosenträger. Ausgerechnet der Brite Piers Morgan soll Nachfolger von Larry King, dem ur-amerikanischsten aller Talk-Gastgeber, werden. Immerhin: Morgan brachte einst den damaligen Premier Gordon Brown zum Weinen.
Phone-hacking questions leave Nick Clegg slashing and chopping
From The Guardian Dated 8 September 2010 The deputy prime minister, standing in for David Cameron, had to face the flak from the News of the World hacking scandalDavid Cameron had flown to be with his dying father, so Nick Clegg had to face the flak from...
Gender equality plan for shadow cabinet diluted by Labour MPs
From The Guardian Dated 8 September 2010 Harriet Harman's plan to give half of places in shadow cabinet to women reduced to a third in series of party reform votesInterim Labour leader Harriet Harman's plan to give half the places in the shadow cabinet to women was...
The greenest government ever? Only if the Treasury can be tamed | Michael Jacobs
From The Guardian Dated 8 September 2010 The silence from Osborne and Cable is ominous. The next few weeks are crucial to keep the low-carbon economy on trackThis would be "the greenest government ever", David Cameron declared in May – easy words in the first flush of...
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