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‘Bigot’ row overshadows debate

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The moment Gordon Brown was caught on microphone Labour is not treating immigration [...]

April 29, 2010 | Posted in U.K. | Read More »

Second debate attracts 4m people

An average audience of 4m people tuned in to watch Thursday night’s prime ministerial debate on Sky, according to early overnight figures.Ratings for the showdown were well down on last week’s ITV1 debate, which attracted an average 9.4m viewers. The debate was screened [...]

April 23, 2010 | Posted in Entertainment | Read More »

Brown steps up attack on Lib Dems

Labour and the Tories want to seize the initiative back from Nick Clegg Gordon Brown has said Lib Dem policies must be "exposed" after polls suggested a jump in support for the party.The prime minister told the BBC Lib Dem economic proposals were [...]

April 18, 2010 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

Labour Vows Not to Raise Income Tax

U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labour Party set out a manifesto Monday pitched to the center, promising not to raise income taxes and pledging broad reforms of the public sector if it wins the May 6 election. Setting out its pledges for what would be a fourth term in government for Labour, the party also [...]

April 12, 2010 | Posted in U.K. | Read More »

We have plan for future - Brown

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Gordon Brown: "My priority is, first of all, to secure the recovery” Gordon [...]

April 12, 2010 | Posted in Top Stories | Read More »

Parties to step up tax arguments

Mr Cameron says he is winning the argument on tax Labour and the Tories are to step up the fight over their tax plans as economic disagreements continue to dominate the election campaign.The Conservatives are arguing Labour’s planned National Insurance tax rise will [...]

April 8, 2010 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

Brown Calls U.K. Elections

LONDON—Britain’s long-anticipated national election was set Tuesday for May 6, kicking off an intense 30-day battle between two major parties with sharply different plans to fix the U.K’s battered economy and giant deficit. It’s also an unusual battle in which the favored opposition Tories, led by David Cameron, must win big to avoid [...]

April 7, 2010 | Posted in Top Stories, World | Read More »

Brown to call election for 6 May

The three main party leaders will go head-to-head live on television Gordon Brown will announce on Tuesday morning that the general election will, as expected, be held on 6 May, BBC political editor Nick Robinson says.The prime minister will go to Buckingham Palace [...]

April 6, 2010 | Posted in U.K. | Read More »

Brown Slams British Airways Strike

LONDON—A planned strike by cabin crew at British Airways PLC has sparked opposition from the British government, even though the union representing the disgruntled workers is a key contributor to the ruling Labour Party. The industrial action was condemned Monday by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who said the pending strike “is unjustified, it [...]

March 15, 2010 | Posted in U.K. | Read More »

Brown says BA strike ‘deplorable’

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said a planned strike by British Airways (BA) cabin crew would be "unjustified and [...]

March 15, 2010 | Posted in Top Stories | Read More »