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Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:28 PM

Downing Street

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Name: Downing Street

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 9 Documents

Tony Blair

Blair dropped from EU bid

Brussels - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday dropped Tony Blair as his candidate for the job of European Union president, a Downing Street spokesperson said.Brown was one of eight socialist heads of government meeting to agree a common position ... [News24.com - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Tony Blair, European Union, Brussels, Gordon Brown

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 20 hours ago - 6 Documents

Parts of Scotland, England underwater, 11 missing

Parts of Scotland and northern England were under several feet of water Friday morning after raging rivers burst their banks and flooded towns, officials said.A police officer was missing after flooding in Cumbria, near the border with Scotland, Cumbria ... [CNN - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Flooding, Met Office, Scotland

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents

UK borrowing 'higher than expected' at £11.4 billion

UK borrowing ballooned by a higher than expected 11.4 billion in October, official figures showed today.The record rise for the month takes public sector net borrowing for the financial year so far to 86.9 billion, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) ... [24dash.com - 11/20/2009]

Entities: United Kingdom, Taxes, Andrew Sentance, Bond Rating, Centre for Economics and Business Research Ltd

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents

David Cameron

Lack of MPs' expenses law 'disgraceful', says David Cameron

David Cameron has demanded that Labour explains whether it will back new legislation to bring in wholesale reform of MPs' expenses. Nick Clegg, David Cameron and Gordon Brown leave after the Queen's Speech Photo: PAUL GROVER The Conservative leader ... [Telegraph - 11/19/2009]

Entities: David Cameron, Christopher Kelly, Gordon Brown, Downing Street

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

European Union

Belgium PM set for top EU job

Former British prime minister Tony Blair was out of the running as Europes new president tonight after his successor Gordon Brown said he was switching his support to another Briton EU Trade Commissioner Baroness Cathy Ashton.She is now odds-on to become ... [Irish Times - 11/19/2009]

Entities: European Union, Belgium, Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Hamid Karzai

An Afghan Exit Strategy

President Hamid Karzai's statement in his inauguration speech, that he expects Afghan security forces to be running operations across the country within five years, is the latest sign that an exit strategy is being formulated.In itself Mr Karzai's statement ... [BBC - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Exit Strategy, Hamid Karzai, Gordon Brown, Barack Obama

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Gordon Brown

Brown drops Blair

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has given up his bid to secure the job of EU president for Tony Blair but has won support for commissioner Catherine Ashton to become foreign policy supremo.Brown is one of eight socialist heads of government meeting ... [Sky News Australia - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, European Union, Foreign Policy, Brussels

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Politics)

UK & World News: Brown's pledge to military families

Military families have been promised fresh action to help them access work and childcare, amid Government concern over mounting public scepticism about the campaign in Afghanistan.Measures including putting "armed forces champions" in job centres were ... [Newcastle Evening Chronicle - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Military/Armed Forces, Gordon Brown, Afghanistan, United Kingdom

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Corporate Deals)

Government celebrates role of social enterprises

Communities are stronger as a result of social enterprises, the Prime Minister has told people working in the sector at a Downing Street reception to mark Social Enterprise Day.Gordon Brown said such businesses are making a “huge difference” and are an ... [10 Downing Street - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Entrepreneur, Tessa Jowell, Angela Smith, Downing Street

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Critics attack Brown over expenses reform

Gordon Brown is under pressure over MPs' expenses, after the man tasked with cleaning up Westminster said he was 'disappointed' that the Queen's Speech contained no legislation to implement his recommendations.Downing Street insisted the Prime Minister ... [ITN - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Gordon Brown, Christopher Kelly, Westminster, Jim Devine, Manzila Pola Uddin

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

What did Gordon Brown find funny in the Queen's speech?

The great mystery of the Queen's speech was: what made the famously taciturn Gordon Brown break into laughter during his traditionally uncomfortable walk from the House of Lords with the opposition leader David Cameron? Downing Street could offer little ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Allegra

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Free care plan savaged by Labour peers

A key plank of Gordon Browns re-election strategy was condemned by members of his own party yesterday as irresponsible, unaffordable and based on a myth. The Prime Ministers plan to offer free care at home to the elderly, outlined yesterday in the last ... [Times Online - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Brutality, General Election, Niall Dickson

Quotes

Downing Street dismissed the Tory claim as "absurd". A spokesman for Mr Brown said: "Under the Tories, the UK wouldn't have had the High Representative [foreign minister's] job. We would be totally sidelined."

Tories accuse Brown of selling out the City in deal with France [The Independent - 11 hours ago]

...think it will be something of a relief," Professor Richard Whitman of the respected London think-tank Chatham House told AFP, citing two reasons. "The first being the consequences which it would have had for him financially, in terms of loss of earnings... but the second reason would be that he wouldn't have had anything like the freedom to speak his own mind." Hours after leaving Downing Street in June 2007, Blair was named envoy of the so-called Middle East Quartet, representing the United States, European...

Blair 'will bounce back' [The News International - 12 hours ago]

...He said Brown had known for some time that Blair had no chance. "There was an expectation that at a certain time there should come a change from Downing Street... We all knew it couldn't be otherwise" added Rasmussen...

Calls from Merkel told Blair he would not get EU's top job [Guardian.co.uk - 15 hours ago]

...Brown spoke with Cumbria's chief constable Friday morning and promised him any government help he needs, Brown's office at Downing Street said. "His thoughts are with all those who have been impacted by the floods and our thanks go to the emergency services, who continue their extraordinary efforts to help those affected" a statement from his office said

Parts of Scotland, England underwater, 11 missing [CNN - 20 hours ago]

More Content

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Weekly organises 'audience' with PM in two days [Hold The Front Page - 3 hours ago]
MP joins calls for Brown to quit [BBC - 4 hours ago]
Stand-up Tim highlights a sit-down problem [Inspire - 6 hours ago]
Nigel Lawson: Thatcher's Chancellor takes on th... [Telegraph - 7 hours ago]
Tories accuse Brown of selling out the City in ... [The Independent - 11 hours ago]
Blair 'will bounce back' [The News International - 12 hours ago]
Sir David Richards [The National Interest - 13 hours ago]
Andrew Grice: Blair beaten, but a coup for Brow... [The Independent - 15 hours ago]
Calls from Merkel told Blair he would not get E... [Guardian.co.uk - 15 hours ago]
Religious right encroaches on Tory party despit... [Times Online - 17 hours ago]
Gordon Brown accused of taking 'wrong' EU job [Telegraph - 19 hours ago]
Tim Vine lends support to Tearfund sanitation c... [Christian Today - 20 hours ago]
Parts of Scotland, England underwater, 11 missing [CNN - 20 hours ago]
Mapping out Greater Access [SourceUK.net - 20 hours ago]
PM backs Harman over crash while she was on phone [London Evening Standard - 20 hours ago]
Brown backs Harman over 'mobile phone car smash' [Mail Online UK - 22 hours ago]
Body found in flood is missing Pc [BBC - 23 hours ago]
11 missing after floods in England [CNN - 11/20/2009]
Body found in hunt for flood Pc [BBC - 11/20/2009]
Severe floods submerge British towns [CNN - 11/20/2009]
Severe floods submerge towns in northern England [CNN - 11/20/2009]
11 missing as severe floods submerge British towns [CNN - 11/20/2009]
11 missing after severe floods in northern England [CNN - 11/20/2009]
Should I meet the prime minister or a client? [Building Design - 11/20/2009]
MPs expenses: Gordon Brown agrees to introduce ... [Telegraph - 11/20/2009]
Cybercafe operator faces RM1.5m fine [The Star Online - 11/20/2009]
Menke's Automotive Repair Named Motor Age Top Shop [OfficialSpin - 11/20/2009]
A real matter of conscience and morality for Fr... [Irish Independent - 11/20/2009]
Belgian PM Herman Van Rompuy appointed first EU... [FreshNews.in - 11/20/2009]
Meet Van Rompuy, Europe's new President [rediff.com - 11/20/2009]

Blogs

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EU: The Next Generation (Blast Furnace Canada B... [Progressive Bloggers - 16 hours ago] After what was thought to be a potentially crisis meeting for the current rotating chair of the EU Council Presidency, Sweden's PM Frederik Reinfeldt, the 27 heads ...
Brown is right: he is odds on to emulate John M... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009] Major's victory in 1992 is the precedent Labour likes to talk about. But it's his defeat five years later that should concern themNo British prime minister ever ...
An Afghan Exit Strategy [BBC NEWS \| Talk about Newsnight - 11/19/2009] President Hamid Karzai's statement in his inauguration speech, that he expects Afghan security forces to be running operations across the country within five years, ...
After failing to get the European council presi... [Politics: Politics blog \| guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009] Blair's embarrassment at being so publicly rebuffed by the EU 27 will not last long"We can all picture the scene at a European Council sometime next year. Picture ...
Does Obama Need Britain in Afghanistan? [The Spectator.co.uk Alex Massie Blog - 11/19/2009] Since I outlined a modest case for dithering on Afghanstan last month, it probably behoves me to admit that, politicaly though perhaps not militarily, the time for ...

Audio/Video

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Teaching Award reception [Downing St - YouTube - 11/06/2009]
Community Crime Fighters Awards [Downing St - YouTube - 11/05/2009]
Five Key Challenges [Downing St - YouTube - 09/18/2009]
Diversity at Downing Street [Downing St - YouTube - 09/17/2009]
Press Conference [Downing St - YouTube - 07/24/2009]

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