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Brown ‘pledged war with Murdoch’

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

Rupert Murdoch tells the Leveson Inquiry former Prime Minister Gordon Brown was not in “a balanced state of mind” when he “declared war” on News Corporation.

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Brown ‘pledged war with Murdoch’

Ex-watchdog rebukes politicians

Friday, December 9th, 2011

Former Information Commissioner Richard Thomas criticised prime ministers Gordon Brown and David Cameron for failing to tackle data theft.

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Ex-watchdog rebukes politicians

Friday, December 9th, 2011

Former Information Commissioner Richard Thomas criticised prime ministers Gordon Brown and David Cameron for failing to tackle data theft.

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Ex-watchdog rebukes politicians

VIDEO: Ed Balls: There was no plot against Blair

Friday, June 10th, 2011

Ed Balls has denied there was a plot by Gordon Brown and his supporters to oust Tony Blair as Prime Minister in the months after the 2005 general election.

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Expenses judge slams party chiefs

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Gordon Brown were accused by a judge of taking part in a “pre-election frenzy” which jeopardised expenses trials.

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Expenses judge slams party chiefs

Brown: Trip is not IMF job pitch

Friday, May 20th, 2011

Gordon Brown says he is not in South Africa to “pitch for a job” at the International Monetary Fund and the next chief must be ‘appointed on merit’.

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Brown: Trip is not IMF job pitch

‘Time not right’ for Brown at IMF

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Labour’s former City minister Lord Myners says the time is not “right” for Gordon Brown to run for head of the IMF.

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‘Time not right’ for Brown at IMF

Clegg ambushed by Brown’s ‘bigot row woman’

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Gillian Duffy – the Rochdale pensioner called “bigoted” by Gordon Brown – has confronted Nick Clegg over the coalition’s policies.

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Clegg ambushed by Brown’s ‘bigot row woman’

Sarah Brown tells of ‘surreal’ life at No 10

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

The wife of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown says her husband was “misunderstood” in newspaper extracts, ahead of the publication of her memoirs.

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Sarah Brown tells of ‘surreal’ life at No 10

Source: UK leader feared he was hacked

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown wrote to the police last summer to ask if his voice mail had been hacked into, a source close with the situation told CNN Sunday.

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Source: UK leader feared he was hacked

Brown asked police about hacking

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

Ex-PM Gordon Brown asked police if his phone was hacked, it is confirmed – days after former editor Andy Coulson resigned as No 10 spokesman amid claims of hacking at his old paper.

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Brown airs youth joblessness fear

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

Government cuts will leave Britain with worse youth unemployment problems than the 1980s, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown warns.

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Brown warns of euro ‘high noon’

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown tells the BBC he fears the euro will face a moment of reckoning in the new year.

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Brown: I’d have quit over euro

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

Gordon Brown says he was prepared to quit as Chancellor in 1997 if Labour decided to join the single currency.

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Brown ‘cuts misjudgement’ warning

Monday, December 6th, 2010

The rush to slash spending may be seen in future as one of the “great misjudgements of history”, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown warns.

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