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Brown red-faced after tax plan snub - PA
- 4 Hours ago
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered an embarrassing rebuff when he floated the prospect of a new tax worldwide, only to have it flatly and publicly rejected by the United States and other major financial
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SNP appeal over nuclear weapons
- 4 Hours ago
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The SNP has stepped up the pressure on Westminster to dump the UK's arsenal of nuclear weapons. Backbench Nationalist MSP Bill Kidd set out plans to host a meeting of opponents in the Scottish Parliament.He
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Anger over expenses overhaul claims - PA
- 5 Hours ago
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The head of the new watchdog charged with cleaning up Parliament is at the centre of a political firestorm after it emerged that he may scrap key elements of the plan to overhaul the system of MPs' expenses.
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Brown backs new tax on banks but the US is opposed
- 6 Hours ago
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Britain will not act alone, the Prime Minister tells finance ministers at the G20 summit in St Andrews Close pa Alistair Darling (left) listens yesterday to Gordon Brown at the G20 Gordon Brown suffered
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While we rail at MPs, the City gets away with murder
- 7 Hours ago
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Nobody benefits more from our emasculated MPs than tax-avoiding plutocrats and bonus bandits Luck rather than a conspiracy explains why the newspaper that broke the expenses scandal is the property of
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Row breaks out over Brown's City tax
- 3 Hours ago
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International levy on financial trading would help developing world deal with climate change A row blew up last night after Gordon Brown promoted plans for an international tax on City dealing that could
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UK urges divided G20 to reach climate finance deal
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British finance minister Alistair Darling urged his G20 counterparts to work toward a US$100 billion deal on tackling climate change as developing nations held firm they did not want to talk about it.
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SNP blasts Labour plan to axe rail service
- 6 Hours ago
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FIRST Minister Alex Salmond has hit out at 'secret plans' to axe a vital rail service between Scotland and London. The UK government takes over the direct service between Glasgow and King's Cross on the
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Council pledge on front-line job cuts
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BOSSES at one of Scotland's largest local authorities have reassured staff that job losses will be kept to a minimum following news of cuts to front-line services. North Lanarkshire Council plans to tighten
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Brown tax levy considered by G20
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for serious consideration of a levy on financial activity. He has told bankers and finance ministers from the Group of 20 rich and developing nations the
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Brown hosts talks on Northern Irish policing
- 6 Hours ago
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NORTHERN Ireland's First and Deputy First Minister met Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Downing Street yesterday to discuss devolving policing and justice powers. Sinn Fein Deputy First Minister Martin
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Glasgow North East: bounce or bombshell for Brown?
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Labour is defending a 10,000-plus majority, but this week's byelection could be critical Labour is hoping to use a positive result in this week's Glasgow North East byelection as the springboard for
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BNP set to advance in ex-Speaker Martin's Glasgow seat
- 6 Hours ago
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SNP candidate David Kerr in Glasgow The battle for the parliamentary seat vacated by former House of Commons speaker Michael Martin could hand the British National Party its first major breakthrough in
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Tory Eurosceptics threaten 'all-out war' over Brussels
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David Cameron's promise of a referendum in 2015 would come too late to placate his MPs and MEPs Close pa Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan resigned last week from the Tory frontbench in the European Parliament
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John Rentoul: Cameron is the new Blair
- 6 Hours ago
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The Tory leader has learnt from New Labour not to promise too much. There's little danger of that Close "What are Cameron's 10 Bills for his first Queen's Speech?" a Cabinet minister asked me recently
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