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Baby loses fight for life after mother becomes first in UK to die from swine flu

admin1 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:47:31 +0000

The 38-year-old mother was unconscious throughout his birth and never had a chance to hold her tiny boy. And, in a tragic twist, little Jack lost his own battle for life.

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Baby loses fight for life after mother becomes first in UK to die from swine flu

Transparency? What a joke. Iraq inquiry to sit in secret, have no power to apportion blame… and, oh yes, won’t report until AFTER the election

admin1 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:07:38 +0000

Gordon Brown was accused of an ‘establishment stitch-up’ yesterday after announcing an inquiry into the Iraq War.

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Transparency? What a joke. Iraq inquiry to sit in secret, have no power to apportion blame… and, oh yes, won’t report until AFTER the election

Brown on the brink: Now Labour grandee demands leadership debate as plotters circle beleaguered PM

admin1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:39:01 +0000

The former Lord Chancellor – and Tony Blair’s old flatmate – warned that the party may not be able to restore unity while Gordon Brown was still at the helm.

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Mandelson email savages Gordon Brown as angry, insecure… and unable to win the next election

admin1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:23:42 +0000

Peter Mandelson’s claim that Gordon Brown is doing a great job is in tatters after it was revealed he called the PM ‘insecure, self-conscious physically and emotionally, uncomfortable in his skin and angry’ in a leaked email.

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Mandelson email savages Gordon Brown as angry, insecure… and unable to win the next election

Darling stays put in shotgun reshuffle as desperate Brown struggles to shape cabinet

admin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:44:55 +0000

Gordon Brown staked his future on a Cabinet of bought-off rebels, expenses cheats, unelected cronies and political lightweights yesterday.

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Darling stays put in shotgun reshuffle as desperate Brown struggles to shape cabinet

Brown faces a day of Euro poll disaster as UKIP scores higher in opinion polls than Labour

admin1 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:32:41 +0000

Gordon Brown is heading for the worst performance by a government in modern political history in today’s European elections, according to a shock poll.

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Darling vows to pay back money claimed on second home while he was living in Downing Street

admin1 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:06:52 +0000

The Chancellor agreed to give back part of a service charge paid using public money on his £226,000 flat in Oval, south London.

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It’s my duty to carry on, claims defiant Brown as the vultures circle and backbenchers plot to get rid of him

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:32:47 +0000

Gordon Brown today expressed concern for Britain’s Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle but in Westminster, it was his own future that was on the line.

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It’s my duty to carry on, claims defiant Brown as the vultures circle and backbenchers plot to get rid of him

We’d lose election: Beleaguered Brown’s slip as he rejects clamour for early poll

admin1 — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:09:14 +0000

Gordon Brown made an extraordinary gaffe in the Commons yesterday, conceding that if he called a general election the Tories would win.

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The Queen tells Gordon Brown she is ‘deeply troubled’ over MPs’ expenses

admin — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:18:06 +0000

The Queen has told Gordon Brown she is worried that the scandalous revelations about MPs’ expenses could damage Parliament.

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The Queen tells Gordon Brown she is ‘deeply troubled’ over MPs’ expenses