Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown 06/02/2012

21:30 : Gordon Brown did not save the world but he saved the UK | Aditya Chakraborr - When the moment of maximum danger came, Brown had the right diagnosis and did largely the right thingsIt must be the most famous slip of the tongue in Westminster's recent history. Just before Christmas in 2008, Gordon Brown stood ...

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Gordon Brown 26/01/2012

18:41 : Gordon Brown | Europe's three-dimensional crisis - This is not just a fiscal crisis. We are seeing the decline of the west, and only a growth-led response can ease the transitionIn the rush to define Europe's problems as fiscal, our deep-seated banking and competitiveness problems have been largely ignored.In ...

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Gordon Brown 22/01/2012

21:36 : America overcomes the debt crisis as Britain sinks deeper into the swamp - Britain has sunk deeper into debt. Three years after bubble burst, the UK has barely begun to tackle the crushing burden left by Gordon Brown. The contrast with the United States is frankly shocking.

Source : telegraph-co-uk

Gordon Brown 09/12/2011

23:26 : RBS report to reveal fatal flaws at the heart of financial regulator - People who have seen the 500- page document said it would blame inherent weaknesses in the regulatory architecture created by Gordon Brown for the fiasco that forced taxpayers into a £45bn bailout of RBS.

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Gordon Brown 07/12/2011

14:13 : Manufacturing struggles again as City takes up the slack - The travails of manufacturing and the decline in oil and gas output has made the UK even more dependent on financial services as it tries to pay its way in the worldThe industrial strategy of the coalition government in late 2011 is the same ...

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Gordon Brown 04/12/2011

10:50 : DAN ATKINSON: Slimline statement masks meaty sums - Looked at one way, the Chancellor's Autumn Statement lived up fully to his pledge of 2010, which was that the bulky pseudo-Budgets of the Gordon Brown years were a thing of the past.

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Gordon Brown 29/11/2011

16:08 : George Osborne revisits the days of the Iron Chancellor … minus the rabbit - Tory chancellor sounded like a parody of Gordon Brown It was almost like old times as George Osborne announced a blizzard of small measures to boost the struggling British economy in his autumn statement. At one point, as he listed ...

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Gordon Brown 08/10/2011

23:53 : Euro crisis spreads and puts the world economy at risk - When G20 finance ministers meet in Paris next weekend, the stakes will be enormous for both Europe and the worldWhen finance ministers from the G20 major economies meet next weekend, they could be excused for having a sickening feeling of deja vu. This ...

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Gordon Brown 16/09/2011

15:17 : Gordon Brown fears euro crisis worse than Lehman as 1930s beckon - Gordon Brown has warned that Europe's fast-escalating crisis is now more dangerous than the Lehman Brothers disaster three years ago, threatening to tip the West into a 1930s-style slump unless global leaders ...

Source : telegraph-co-uk

Gordon Brown 07/09/2011

20:35 : Give Gordon Brown credit where it's due - I have taken a keen interest in British politics since I was a teenager in 1945 and in all that time I have never known a politician so criticised, savaged and denigrated to the extent that Gordon Brown has been (Coup might have saved ...

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Gordon Brown 04/09/2011

15:50 : Gordon Brown was Alistair Darling's mad woman in the attic | Heather Stewar - The former chancellor's memoir reveals a titanic struggle to keep Brown as well as the economy from the hitting the rocksBack from the Brink is Alistair Darling's bid to salvage something for the history books from a chancellorship likely to be best ...

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Gordon Brown 03/09/2011

20:00 : Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling 'were at odds from the start' - Former chancellor faced interference from the then PM, who wished to play down the economic risk from the banking crisisGordon Brown repeatedly pressured Alistair Darling to change his economic forecasts almost from the outset ...

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Gordon Brown 31/08/2011

13:44 : Alistair Darling memoir to reveal rifts with 'brutal' Gordon Brown - Former chancellor's book reportedly charts breakdown in relationship with Brown, and accuses former PM of trying to undermine him at the TreasuryTensions at the top of government and the Bank of England during the 2008 financial ...

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Gordon Brown 18/08/2011

23:25 : PFI always was a Pretty Farcical Idea - Private finance initiative projects require more efficiency than the private sector can deliverThe Treasury select committee did not use the old gag about the private finance initiative being a Pretty Farcical Idea, but that's a rough summary of its ...

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Gordon Brown 08/08/2011

22:26 : Debt crisis: 'Four years on, and we're still just kicking the can down ... - On the fourth anniversary of the global financial crisis the after-effects are still with us and show little sign of abatingIt is four years today since the global financial crisis began: Gordon Brown was still spending his honeymoon ...

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Gordon Brown 30/06/2011

21:19 : Are Ed Miliband and Ed Balls playing a blinder on strikes and the EU budget - Labour leader and shadow chancellor confound Tories by criticising strikes and proposed increase in EU budgetDowning Street assumes that Ed Miliband and Ed Balls are a dream for David Cameron.As protégés of Gordon Brown, the two forty-somethings ...

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Gordon Brown 23/06/2011

09:51 : A guide to ISAs - Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) continue to grow in popularity – particularly in light of the low interest rate environment. They were launched in April 1999 by Gordon Brown, who was Chancellor at the time, and ...

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Gordon Brown 16/06/2011

22:33 : Ed Balls: On the attack again - A cut in VAT makes sense only if one wants to shovel £2.5bn a month out of the Treasury as fast as possibleEd Balls may be many things – as people on both sides of the Commons will tell you – but two of his strengths can't be denied. First, the former ...

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Gordon Brown 13/06/2011

01:39 : Stephen King: A week when you finish up clutching a pair of scissors - It's been a "could've, should've, would've" kind of week. Courtesy of Ed Balls and some stray paperwork, we learnt that Gordon Brown "could've" got to grips with public spending back in 2006. Despite advice from officials imploring ...

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Gordon Brown 11/06/2011

06:06 : Labour spending: how Gordon Brown cast aside warning on public spending ... - Gordon Brown pushed ahead with plans to pump billions of pounds of extra taxpayers' money into the public sector despite being warned that it was being wasted, leaked documents disclose.

Source : telegraph-co-uk

Gordon Brown 10/06/2011

21:21 : Labour spending: Gordon Brown and Ed Balls ignored warnings and wasted ... - Gordon Brown and Ed Balls ignored warnings over the profligacy of their spending plans and the damaging impact of key tax policies, leaked documents disclose.

Source : telegraph-co-uk

Gordon Brown 28/05/2011

23:17 : Alistair Darling backs Christine Lagarde for head of IMF - Former chancellor delivers snub to Gordon Brown with praise for FrenchwomanFormer chancellor Alistair Darling has endorsed France's Christine Lagarde as his first choice to head the International Monetary Fund, ...

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23:17 : Paul Krugman: liberal loner who thinks Obama is spineless and Gordon Brown - Paul Krugman, Nobel prizewinning economist, leads the fight against Obama from the liberal leftThe Nobel prizewinning US economist Paul Krugman is disarmingly frank about his own weaknesses. "Loner. Ordinarily shy. Shy with individuals," he told New ...

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Gordon Brown 26/05/2011

11:29 : Gordon Brown and the IMF job: a stitch-up? - I detect no signs of anyone suddenly championing the former chancellor's case in the corridors of powerShould Gordon Brown be considered, let alone picked, to run the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in succession to Dominique Strauss-Kahn'When ...

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Gordon Brown 25/05/2011

21:31 : Barack Obama backs Gordon Brown's handling of global recession - US president fails to endorse David Cameron's deficit reduction strategy but praises his predecessor at No 10Barack Obama has dashed David Cameron's hopes that he might endorse his deficit reduction strategy, instead praising the way the UK's chairmanship ...

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Gordon Brown 23/05/2011

12:13 : Gordon Brown wrote off chances of IMF job a decade ago by rejecting euro - Former prime minister enjoyed no support for bid to head IMF because Britain is outside the euroGordon Brown is irritated that Britain is officially endorsing Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister, as the next ...

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06:13 : Gordon Brown and the IMF deserve better than this shabby treatment - Brown had his faults but he helped steer IMF policy, pushed aid on to the global agenda and took the lead when banking was near collapse. So why doesn't Cameron want him?Imagine that in the aftermath of Tony Blair's ...

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Gordon Brown 19/05/2011

13:06 : Britain won't back Gordon Brown for IMF job - Vince Cable says Britain needs someone from a Eurozone country to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn after he resigned from his position following sex attack allegations.

Source : telegraph-co-uk

Gordon Brown 18/05/2011

16:15 : Brown 'Not Right' To Take Over IMF Top Job - The head of the IMF is facing growing pressure to quit his role following his arrest on sex charges - amid suggestions Gordon Brown has no chance of taking over.

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Gordon Brown 17/05/2011

09:01 : Dominique Strauss-Khan's arrest throws open race to lead IMF - France's Christine Lagarde, Turkey's Kemal Dervis and former UK prime minister Gordon Brown are all possible candidates to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the head of the International Monetary FundPhillip Inman

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