British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s personal ratings have fallen again after he survived attempts to force him out of office.
Gordon Brown faced a renewed challenge to his leadership on Monday after support for the ruling Labour Party plunged to its lowest level in a century.
Britain’s newspapers said on Saturday that Gordon Brown’s premiership was scuppered and called for a general election to restore some authority.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown backed down from replacing his finance minister on Friday in a bid to hold his government together.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was battling to stay in his job on Friday after a minister quit calling for his resignation.
Voting began on Thursday in Britain for European Parliament and local authority elections, with Gordon Brown fighting for his political survival.
A group of rebel Labour MPs is seeking signatures for a letter calling on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to step down, said a report on Wednesday.
Two British government ministers urged Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday to offer voters a referendum on electoral reform.
Britain’s Gordon Brown dismissed political rivals’ calls on Wednesday for an early election in response to public fury over lawmakers’ expenses.
G20 leaders meeting in London this week will seek to agree global rules on remuneration in the banking sector, Gordon Brown said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 February 2009
Police said on Monday they feared a ”summer of rage” with mass protests over the economic crisis that could mar Gordon Brown’s G20 summit in April.
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/ 20 February 2009
Switzerland was feeling the heat on banking secrecy on Friday after the US stepped up its high-stakes tax probe against the biggest Swiss bank, UBS.
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/ 11 February 2009
The G7 meet in Rome this week to kick off a run of high-profile meetings among leaders wrestling to get recession-hit economies back on their feet.
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/ 7 February 2009
BBC television presenter Jeremy Clarkson said on Saturday that he would not apologise for calling UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown an ”idiot”.
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/ 5 February 2009
Global protectionism fears were heightened after the US Senate voted to keep a "Buy American" clause in the huge US stimulus Bill.
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/ 2 February 2009
Heavy snow disrupted air and rail travel in northern Europe on Monday, halting flights at Heathrow and bringing traffic in London to a standstill.
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/ 19 January 2009
Britain threw its troubled banks their second multibillion-pound lifeline in three months on Monday.
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/ 13 January 2009
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has slipped further behind the opposition Conservatives in an opinion poll on Tuesday.
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/ 12 January 2009
Policymakers facing mounting job losses prepared new measures to ease the pain on Monday.
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/ 19 December 2008
President Robert Mugabe on Friday told his Zanu-PF party that "Zimbabwe is mine", adding he would never surrender.
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/ 14 December 2008
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown blamed banned Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba for last month’s deadly Mumbai attack.
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/ 6 December 2008
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe came under fresh international pressure over his country’s collapse on Saturday.
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/ 14 November 2008
Gordon Brown on Thursday called on the world’s most powerful industrial nations to agree a programme of immediate and coordinated tax cuts.
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/ 10 November 2008
The oil-dependent production of cereal crops could be replaced by a traditional method, writes Graham Harvey.
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/ 2 November 2008
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday called for billions of dollars in extra funding for the IMF to prop up struggling economies.
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/ 22 October 2008
Warnings of an ”inevitable” global recession and the expectation of more interest-rate cuts triggered global financial turmoil on Wednesday.
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/ 16 October 2008
European Union leaders on Thursday stuck to a December deadline for reaching a final deal on fighting climate change.
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/ 13 October 2008
Fifteen European leaders closed in Sunday on a joint strategy to end the haemorrhaging of market confidence.
Bold, comprehensive and at times surprising, the UK’s bail-out plan for partial nationalisation is just what the system needed, writes Will Hutton.
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/ 10 October 2008
Global finance chiefs gathered in Washington for crisis talks on Friday as panic spread in global financial markets.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown revamped his Cabinet on Friday, recalling old hand and one-time political opponent Peter Mandelson.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown turned to old hand and former enemy Peter Mandelson on Friday in a government reshuffle.