By Christina Fincher LONDON (Reuters UK) - The economic downturn is likely to be deeper and last longer than originally feared and it might turn out to be the worst for 60 years, Chancellor Alistair Darling said on Saturday. The frank comments in a newspaper interview...
By Sumeet Desai LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown cut an unpopular tax on home purchases on Tuesday as part of a package to boost the country's slumping housing market and lift his flagging political fortunes. Brown's government said properties worth...
Home News IN BRIEF *Detectives investigating a threat to kill the Prime Minister have arrested a fifth man, a 29-year-old in Derby, for alleged offences under the Terrorism Act 2000. Officers were searching an address in the city yesterday. The arrest is part...
IT FEELS like it has all fizzled out. All the end-of-term excitement at Westminster about Gordon Brown's uncertain hold on No 10 seems to have subsided. Was it all just the silliness induced by the imminence of the holidays? Just as, at school, the older pupils play practical jokes and...
Cabinet ministers will give Gordon Brown "one last chance" to save his premiership but will try to oust him by November if he fails to improve Labour's prospects. Senior ministers believe it would be a mistake to move against the Prime Minister before Labour's annual conference next...
Ministers must act to help thousands of homeowners and put curbs on banks repossessing homes if borrowers get into trouble, says Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman. He said ministers should create a system of regulated "mortgage rescue schemes" to allow people in difficulties to sell...
LEADING ARTICLE After the astonishing success of Britain's athletes in the Beijing Olympics, an awkward question hangs in the air: how on earth do we follow that? What can we do to ensure that our national haul of 47 medals (19 of them gold) is not...
If Gordon Brown needed an object lesson in how sport can divert the nation from its present preoccupation with economic gloom, he could have done worse than get himself down to Mansfield's Market Square yesterday evening. Few places have been hit harder by the decline of heavy...
If Gordon Brown needed an object lesson in how sport can divert the nation from its present preoccupation with economic gloom, he could have done worse than get himself down to Mansfield's Market Square yesterday evening. Few places have been hit harder by the decline of heavy...
* Dire warning from Bank of England's deputy governor Pressure is mounting on Gordon Brown to find help for hard- pressed families as the new Deputy Governor of the Bank of England warned that the financial situation was at least as bad as that of the...
Don't hike corporate taxes, directors urge *The Institute of Directors has warned the Government not to make business the "fall guy" by imposing higher levels of corporate taxation. The pressure group is worried that the Treasury will increase taxes on companies to fund Gordon Brown's government relaunch...
WHO BETTER than an eccentric Englishman to take the Games from Beijing to London? Cue Boris Johnson. The London Mayor strode on to the international stage yesterday, happily waved the Olympic flag, and told the watching world in no uncertain terms: "Ping-pong is coming home". ...
Downing Street has condemned London's tourist board for featuring a painting of Moors Murderer Myra Hindley in a promotional film shown at an official party celebrating the handover of the Olympic Games to the capital. Marcus Harvey's portrait of Hindley is seen fleetingly in Visit London's three-minute...
GORDON Brown's woes continued last night as a ComRes poll showed Labour trailing 21 points behind the Tories. It put Labour on 25 per cent, the Tories on 46 and LibDems on 16...
LONDON AFP — London kicked off its preparations for the 2012 Olympics amid controversy Sunday as its tourism body came under fire for featuring a painting of a murderer in a promotional film screened in Beijing. Marcus Harvey's portrait of Myra Hindley, who was sentenced to life imprisonment...
SNP bosses have rejected suggestions by Gordon Brown that a single UK football team could compete at the next Olympics. Speaking in Beijing, the Prime Minister said he would be "surprised" if a UK team didn't compete on home soil in 2012. ...
PM Gordon Brown was given the red card yesterday after he revealed his hopes that a single British football team could compete at the next Olympics. The Prime Minister said he would be "surprised" if a team from the UK would not compete on "home soil"...
HUNDREDS of Iraqi workers promised safe haven after working with British troops could face militia death squads. Those taken on as interpreters, cleaners or drivers have been told they cannot apply for asylum until they have stopped working with British forces. The...
REBEL Labour MPs are masterminding a fresh plot to oust Gordon Brown, according to leaked emails obtained by the Sunday Mirror. MPs are collecting names to show the strength of opposition to the PM ahead of a possible coup next month. They...
GORDON Brown is sending 1,000 civilian experts to Afghanistan in an urgent new bid to "win hearts and minds" there. He wants NHS and civil service staff plus business specialists to be trained to work in war zones in the next three months. ...
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