Gordon Brown

The rebirth of Gordon Brown?

Nick Robinson's Newslog (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

The Masters of the Universe are dead. Long live the Master of the Universe. The death of the banks (at least as independent institutions) has, it would appear, been accompanied by the rebirth of Gordon Brown. Not only has his bank rescue package been backed by all political parties at home but it has also inspired similar plans in the EU and in the United States (once it was clear their own plan had...

Hats off to Gordon Brown?

The Debatable Land (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Commenting on this post, a reader asks:What does this do to Gordon Brown's political future? He sure looks like a world leader as the rest of the world falls in behind his bailout plan. Neither McCain nor Obama seem to have a clue what to do for the financial crisis, so I'm wondering if I should write in Brown's name for President in here in the U.S. Your opinion? This is a good question, not least...

Ben Keeling's animated cartoon: Gordon Brown tipping the balance

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

The PM balances the financial crisis and his own leadership prospects

Video: Gordon Brown unveils banks bail-out

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Prime minister explains plan to inject a total of up to £37bn into Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB and HBOS.

Gordon Brown's 42-day terror move is 'on the brink of defeat' as opposition rises

Daily Mail online | Home (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Gordon Brown faces defeat today over his plans to allow terror suspects to be held for six weeks without charge.

Gordon Brown moves out of Number 10 to go openplan

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

PM moving to an openplan office in Downing Street in an attempt to increase responsiveness.

Gordon Brown's plan is model for EU response to financial crisis

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Gordon Brown's £500 billion British bank rescue plan is becoming the model for the European Union's 'universal response' to the global financial crisis as other governments follow his lead across Europe the UK Foreign Secretary said.

Financial crisis Union tell Gordon Brown nationalised banks cannot repossess homes

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Gordon Brown has been told by the Labour party's biggest donor the Unite union that customers of nationalised banks who default on mortgage payments should not have their homes repossessed.

Financial crisis Gordon Brown's bailout recalls Swedish solution

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

The unprecedented bailout of British banks by British prime miniser Gordon Brown recalls action taken by the Swedish Government in 1992.

Gordon Brown's last-ditch appeal to Lords as 42-day Bill faces defeat

Times Online (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Gordon Brown today made a last-ditch appeal for peers to back the Government's controversial 42-day terror detention plans, ahead of a House of Lords vote which looks certain to vote the measure down by an overwhelming margin.

Gordon Brown calls for global financial reform

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Prime minister says global financial system needs to be reformed to make it 'fit for purpose for the future'

George Osborne blames Gordon Brown for economic 'disaster'

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Shadow chancellor abandons bipartisan approach to banking crisis with attack on prime minister

Gordon Brown and the banking crisis: remember the Falklands

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Michael White: I hope George Osborne was watching Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling's Downing Street press conference this morning

UK could emerge stronger from banks crisis, says Gordon Brown

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Britain could emerge from the financial crisis stronger rather than weaker, Gordon Brown said today as he unveiled a £37bn bailout of three of the country's biggest banks

Gordon Brown and the age of irresponsibility (part 2)

Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Following my last post, people have said to me "Goaty, but this plan wasn't about financial services but the general economy; maybe we should give Gordon Brown the benefit of the doubt, maybe he always was worried about a lack of City regulation." That is a point, it's wrong of course, but it is a point. From The Treasury website comes the text of Gordon Brown's Mansion House speech in June 2007. Here...

Lord Desai only half right about Labour.

news rage uk | 18/04/2008

Lord Desai came out today and said what we are all probably thinking about unelected PM Gordon Brown. That he is indecisive and weak. However he got the next bit wrong because he claimed that Gordon was put on earth to remind us how good Blair was and this is where I started to get angry. I want to make it perfectly clear from here that I think and have always thought that the whole New Labour exercise...

• Threats, insults, and more bad polls: Brown's crisis continues to worsen - The Independent
• Labour peer Lord Desai piles pressure on 'weak' Gordon Brown - The Telegraph
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