Gordon Brown
Founder and executive director of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab (L) speaks at the World Economic Forum in Addis Ababa, on May 10, 2012. Eight African leaders and former British prime minister Gordon Brown are among the more than 700 participants expected at the three-day Addis Ababa meeting. The conference will focus on boosting public-private investment and fostering economic diversity to kick start development across Africa.
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We're about the strongest government in the western world I think, we inherited one of the worst deficit debt problems that anybody had – Gordon Brown was as bad as the Greeks.
These fixed-term parliaments mean Cameron can’t threaten to call a general election, like Gordon Brown did ... It makes change less risky, and more likely.
Mr Murdoch was comfortable discussing Margaret Thatcher, irritated by suggestions of an improper relationship with Tony Blair and hurt by the disintegration of his relationship with Gordon Brown.More quotes »
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UK budget: how much to help the rich?
compared to 145 billion pounds the year before. Borrowing peaked at 151.7 billion pounds in 2009-2010, the last year of Gordon Brown 's Labour government.Public sector debt, excluding temporary financial interventions, was 779 billion pounds when Cameron took Read more »
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Rupert's Blair: Former Prime Minister admits cosy links to Murdoch
person”. Mr Blair said: “In my view it’s an abuse of power. It’s not necessary to do it.” He said the Sun’s attack on Gordon Brown over a controversial letter he sent to a dead soldier’s grieving mum was “out of order”. But despite the criticism, Mr Blair from Mirror.co.uk Read more »
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Andrew Grice: It was love at first bite for Rupert Murdoch and Tony Blair
correspondent and suggested the get-to-know-you session. It wasn’t difficult to spot in the late 1980s that Mr Blair and Gordon Brown would rise to the very top of the Labour Party. Mr Blair was unknown to my senior colleagues but, with his easy charm, he from The Independent Read more »
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A Muslim, northern, working-class mum hand-picked for Cameron's A-list... But is Sayeeda Warsi up to the job?
to ‘decontaminate’ the Tory brand – even though this decontamination failed to deliver him outright victory in 2010 against Gordon Brown. Tory activists who were instinctively distrustful of the Coalition with the Lib Dems were hardly reassured by Cameron’s from Daily Mail - UK Read more »
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Today's News: Vera Baird wins support in battle for Northumbria Police commissioner post
in the battle to win the Labour nomination for this November’s police commissioner elections. Vera Baird, solicitor general in Gordon Brown’s government, has won the backing of some of the party’s biggest North East names ahead of postal vote forms arriving from JournalLive.co.uk Read more »
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MP calls for 'hero' Turing pardon
May 2012 Last updated at 15:42 ET A posthumous apology to Alan Turing was made by Gordon Brown in 2009 An MP wants the government to consider granting an official pardon to a World War II codebreaker over a conviction for indecency with another man. Iain Stewart, from BBC News Read more »
