Ratings agencies applaud UK chancellor’s move to placate markets after sovereign debt crises.
On one of the most momentous days in British parliamentary history the Speaker of the Commons, Michael Martin, resigned his office last Tuesday.
Labour MP Harry Cohen agreed to pay back claims he made on his caravan in Essex.
Seventy-six years ago, hopes were high that an international meeting held at the Geological Museum in London would provide a boost for the economy.
The Bush administration was recently forced to apologise to Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi after a compromising White House press statement about him.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says talks to end seven years of tortuous global trade negotiations were ”at a minute to midnight”.
The response of the big developing countries showed, however, that the verbal gymnastics were not entirely convincing.
After discussing famine in Africa, the peckish politicians and five spouses took on four bite-size amuse-bouches to tickle their palates.
The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown this week set the stage to announce a November 1 general election next week. A poisonous row has erupted between the two main political parties in the United Kingdom over Brown’s decision to fly to Iraq in the middle of the Opposition Conservative (Tory) Party’s annual conference.
Cherie Blair repeatedly urged her husband to sack Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown as she became incensed by his behaviour towards the prime minister, a family friend of the Blairs has disclosed. Barry Cox, who has known the couple for 30 years, said that while the relationship between Blair and his chancellor had been strained since the mid-1990s, the prime minister finally began to believe the worst of his successor during his final year in office.