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Britain's Labour Vote Pits Brother Against Brother

LONDON (Sept. 4) -- Just a few months ago, many Brits struggled to tell David Miliband, 44, apart from his 40-year-old brother Ed. It was an understandable mistake: The siblings both held senior posts in former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's cabinet, and -- with their boyish looks, awkward smiles and mops of dark hair --...

Blair's Memoir Tackles Iraq, Alcohol, Clinton and Bush

LONDON (Sept. 1) -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair offers biting portraits of other world leaders and a searing account of how war and political infighting took their toll on him in a memoir published today. The autobiography, titled "A Journey," has been long awaited by the British public. And although the...

World's Oldest Twitter Tweets Her Maker: Ivy Bean Dies @ 104

(July 28) -- You're never too old to adapt to changes in the modern world. That's certainly one of the lessons of Ivy Bean's life. Bean passed away on July 27 at the age of 104. Born in England in 1905, she worked in a mill when she was growing up. After World War I, she married Harold Gibson Bean and took a job as a...

British Elections: The Rise of the Also-Rans

LONDON (April 27) -- Don't worry if you've never heard of Nick Clegg. Until two weeks ago, the leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats -- which for the past 20 years have consistently come in third in national elections -- was barely known in his own country, let alone abroad. Now with only nine days left until Britons go to...

Protesting Brits Give Labour Party the Boot

(April 7) -- Some boots are made for walking -- others are made for protesting. At least that's the case in London, where members of the nation's Conservative Party have constructed an enormous pair of work boots to demonstrate against the ruling Labour Party as the country's May 6 general election nears....

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UK politician: Blair, Brown too close to Murdoch

LONDON -Britain's politicians and its powerful media were uncomfortably close while Tony Blair ran the country, a former U.K. minister said Wednesday.

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Nathan Gardels: G-20 MUST SUPPORT INCLUSIVE GREEN GROWTH GLOBALLY: Gordon Brown, Eric Schmidt, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, George Yeo

The following is the 21st Century Council statement from the pre-G-20 meeting in Mexico City, May 4-6, 2012.

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06/02/12 Talking to Labour: the only news is that Labour still... Source: Liberal Democrat Voice Talks of all sorts happen between different parties all the time, varying from the personal â such as a few quiet words over handling the consequences of a death in an MP's family â to the national interest â especially on security matters â and including, of course, the political manoeurvering.
06/02/12 PCS to strike Source: Tim Worstall The important thing to remember here is that this is not a strike about anything so cyclical as the current government not liking taxmen.
06/01/12 Diners hold down alleged thug after scuffle rolls into... Source: Perth News An Argentine, owner of a restaurant in Canarias Islands, was brutally attacked by a group of six Marines from the Welsh guards who tried to steal a bottle of wine.
05/31/12 IEA: Cut Chancellor's pay if he fails to balance Budget Source: Telegraph - London - UK "Fiscal prudence is the very least we should expect from a Chancellor. Debt brakes have been shown to work overseas and would be a great asset to the democratic system here in Britain."
05/29/12 Government U-turns: the laddie's for turning Source: The Guardian - London - UK The U-turn gained its peculiar place in Tory psychology with a joke that Margaret Thatcher told â very possibly without understanding it.

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James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 until 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 1997 to 2007, becoming the longest-serving holder of that office in modern history.

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