With the Tory lead down to six points, Cameron must prepare for a close-run race IN POLITICS, as in war, an element of surprise is vital. It is not an advantage Gordon Brown is likely to seize. He has a record of missing opportunities to confound low expectations. The Queen's Speech last week was an example: improbable spending pledges and crudely drawn "dividing lines" between Labour and...
Ever since Gordon Brown was photographed jogging in a London park earlier this month - his track suit bottoms tucked neatly into his socks naturally - the paparazzi have been lying in wait hoping no doubt for the first picture of the Prime Minister running out of puff.
GORDON BROWN has ordered defence chiefs to find a way of pulling some troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2010, according to senior defence sources.
Gordon Brown has arrived in Cumbria to see flood damage and meet those affected by the record breaking rainfall in the area which is braced for further downpours.
Well aside from carjackers on drugs who run you down. Then we have muggers who punch kids in the face and loons who hack out eyeballs. A land filled with tyre deflating characters, Where a previous Home Sec who liked kebabs admitted she was afraid to walk the streets, but all is all well, panic not. We now have a former postman in charge of the Home Office, what can go wrong?....
Gordon Brown rejected advice from Lord Mandelson to seek one of the big economic posts in the European Commission for Britain once it was clear that Tony Blair could not succeed in becoming Europe’s first president, The Times has learnt. Instead he settled for the post of EU High Representative for Baroness Ashton of Upholland.
Having Cathy Ashton appointed to one of the top two jobs in the new EU structures should have been seen as a foreign policy negotiation triumph for the British Government, getting someone from this country in the heart of decision making and power wielding in Europe. But instead the story has been dominated by other issues - [...]
Is that it then... is this how our once great democracy is consigned to history? Pathetic. Catherine Ashton was appointed Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Queen's Privy Council in Gordon Brown’s first Cabinet in June 2007. As well as Leader of the Lords, she took responsibility in the House of Lords for equalities issues. She took the Lisbon Treaty through the UK's upper...
Royal Bank of Scotland Coutts Bank named as the primary offshore financial centre of operations in the Carroll Trust international criminal syndicate case, now the subject of major criminal allegations of conspiracy to defraud racketeering money laundering in Britain's longest running largest organised criminal conspiracy corruption case. Lord Home Chairman of RBS Coutts and the newly appointed chief
A few months ago, the BBCs Top Gear and Sun columnist Jeremy Clarkson , unveiled his manifesto for running Britain as PM. And since then we've had a string of celebrities contemplate running as independent MPs in wake of the scandalous MPs expenses saga, first broken by the Telegraph newspaper . Yesterday Gordon Brown was trying to reclaim the political agenda by announcing a raft of measures on social...
British Parliamentarians of all parties in the House of Commons in Westminster have backed an early day motion on Autism and the Carer's Allowance. EDM 1551 was tabled by Lee Scott MP who has been campaigning tirelessly in the House of Commons on autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Autism campaigners in the United Kingdom have been urging the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Government to increase the...
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