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Friday, November 20, 2009 10:56 PM

Gordon Brown

Type: Person

Name: Gordon Brown (James Gordon)

Title: Prime Minister

Organization: Government of United Kingdom

Date of Birth: 20/02/1951

Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland

Nationality: United Kingdom

Fact Sheet: Biography for Gordon Brown

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 25 Documents

The Labour Party (United Kingdom)

Gordon Brown is a pointless PM

EVEN the tourists appear to have given up on Labour. The public turnout for the Queen's Speech yesterday was derisory, with just a few hardy souls in Parliament Square.In the Commons chamber things were barely any better. The benches were half-empty on ... [Daily Express - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Gordon Brown, The Labour Party (United Kingdom), David Cameron

First Reported 12 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 8 Documents (in Environment)

Hilary Benn

Floods devastate the UK

Military helicopters winched dozens of people to safety and emergency workers in inflatable boats rescued scores more as floods swamped northern England's picturesque Lake District. One police officer was missing and feared dead after a bridge was swept ... [Sky News Australia - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Flooding, Tony Walker, Ireland, Hilary Benn

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 15 hours ago - 35 Documents

European Union

EU stitch-up hands top jobs to little-known duo

A Belgian federalist and a former chairwoman of Hertfordshire Health Authority were ushered into Europes two grandest jobs last night as it stumbled on to the world stage. The European Unions 27 leaders balked at the chance to have Tony Blair as their ... [Times Online - 15 hours ago]

Entities: European Union, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Geoff Hoon

First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 25 mins ago - 11 Documents

Tony Blair

Brown 'went for second best to spite Tories'

Gordon Brown rejected advice from Lord Mandelson to seek one of the big economic posts in the European Commission for Britain once it was clear that Tony Blair could not succeed in becoming Europes first president, The Times has learnt. Instead he settled ... [Times Online - 25 mins ago]

Entities: Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, The Conservative Party (United Kingdom)

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 16 Documents

Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland

UK drops Blair, picks Ashton for EU role (AFP)

AFP/File – Britain's Catherine Ashton, seen here in May 2009, was on Thursday named the European Union's …1 hr 39 mins agoBRUSSELS (AFP) – Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday gave up his bid to secure the job of EU president for Tony Blair but won ... [Yahoo! News - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Tony Blair, European Union, Brussels, United Kingdom, Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 12 Documents

Andy Burnham

Cameron accused of scaremongering over elderly care

The Conservatives sparked a bitter political row last night by claiming two million pensioners would lose out under new Labour plans to reform the system of elderly care. Conservative Party leader David Cameron Photo: PA David Cameron seized on the ... [Telegraph - 11/19/2009]

Entities: David Cameron, Andy Burnham, The Conservative Party (United Kingdom), Gordon Brown, Means Test

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 23 Documents (in Politics)

David Cameron

Queen's Speech: Cameron to Brown - stop wasting the country's time

David Cameron called on Gordon Brown today to stop "wasting the country's time" and call an immediate general election as MPs debated a Queen's Speech designed to draw clear dividing lines between the two major parties before voters next have their s ... [Times Online - 11/18/2009]

Entities: David Cameron, Gordon Brown, General Election, Charles Clarke

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 21 hours ago - 10 Documents

Bush alliance leaves the Blair the loser

Tony Blair was left looking like the big loser last night despite never having formally applied for the job of European president. As the EUs 27 leaders picked two virtual unknowns for its top jobs, the man everyone said would stop the traffic in Washington, ... [Times Online - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Tony Blair, George W Bush, Fredrik Reinfeldt, David Miliband

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 9 hours ago - 6 Documents

Cameron not as quick on Mumsnet as Brown - calls BBC 'very overextended'

The latest political showdown on Mumsnet looks like delivering a points victory for Gordon Brown. Apparently David Cameron, who answered questions on a live web chat on the site today, was criticised by some posters as taking too long to answer. Brown ... [Tech Digest - 9 hours ago]

Entities: David Cameron, Gordon Brown

First Reported 15 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 4 Documents

The Cabinet in East Midlands

The Prime Minister has promised to focus on getting young people back into work and training during the economic downturn, and tackling anti-social behaviour and crime in communities.Gordon Brown was speaking at the opening of an engagement event in Nottingham, ... [10 Downing Street - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Gordon Brown, Crime

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 17 Documents (in Politics)

Browns pledge to help pensioners

PLANS to enable tens of thousands of the neediest pensioners to remain in their homes will today form the centrepiece of the Government's final legislative programme before the General Election.With less than seven months before the country must go to ... [Glasgow Evening Times - 11/18/2009]

Entities: The Labour Party (United Kingdom), Lord Strathclyde, Nick Clegg, House of Lords

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 10 hours ago - 4 Documents

Gordon Brown: I'm backing Stacey Solomon

Gordon Brown has revealed that he and his family are backing Stacey Solomon to win The X Factor.The Prime Minister threw his support behind the Dagenham diva, who is the only girl left in the competition, after the controversial departure of Welsh warbler ... [Jewish Chronicle - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Stacey Solomon, Gordon Brown, X Factor, Brian Friedman, Brian May

Quotes

..." British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Barker "was a very heroic, very brave man."

Floods after Britain's heaviest-ever rainfall [New Zealand Herald - 42 mins ago]

"our thoughts are with all those who have been impacted by these floods" Brown said

Floods devastate the UK [Sky News Australia - 1 hour ago]

More Content

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Europe to Europe: WTF? [Foreign Policy Magazine - 9 mins ago]
Will the great EU stich-up cost us our £3b... [Mail Online UK - 10 mins ago]
Flood waters force 500 from homes [BBC - 19 mins ago]
Brown 'went for second best to spite Tories' [Times Online - 25 mins ago]
Floods after Britain's heaviest-ever rainfall [New Zealand Herald - 42 mins ago]
Flood victim PC Bill Barker died doing what he ... [Times Online - 54 mins ago]
Floods devastate the UK [Sky News Australia - 1 hour ago]
Cameron vows to promote 'good websites' [Gulf News - 1 hour ago]
A great EU stitch-up that demeans democracy [Guardian.co.uk - 1 hour ago]
UKFIs former head is set to join Rothschild [Times Online - 1 hour ago]
MEP pledges support for Ballymurphy 11 families [Irish News - 1 hour ago]
Unleashing the entrepreneurial energy of the young [US Embassy Uruguay: Montevideo - 1 hour ago]
British families await inquiry into conflict th... [Abu Dhabi National - 1 hour ago]
No method in this Queens Speech madness [Times Online - 1 hour ago]
Uncle Sam - Friend or Foe? [opinion] [AllAfrica.com - 1 hour ago]
Afghan handover deadline 'too early' -U.S. [Maktoob Business - 1 hour ago]
Flooding hits Cumbria [Post Magazine UK - 2 hours ago]
Kidnapped British couple fear they could be killed [Telegraph - 2 hours ago]
'Biblical flooding' in Northern England [MSNBC - 2 hours ago]
Kidnapped British yacht couple fear they could ... [Telegraph - 2 hours ago]
All I Want For Christmas [Licensing.biz - 2 hours ago]
Osborne slams £16bn asset sale, but vows t... [Property Week - 2 hours ago]
England's Lost Decade Ahead [American Spectator - 2 hours ago]
Megrahi 'should return to prison' [Beecareful.info - 2 hours ago]
Body of dead police officer found after UK floods [EuroNews - 2 hours ago]
Gordon Brown should demand Lockerbie bomber is ... [Telegraph - 2 hours ago]
We'll be watching you Mr Van Rompuy [Telegraph - 2 hours ago]
Floods devastate UK [Sunday Star Times - 3 hours ago]
InsureandGo: Brown Not Welcome At Global Entrep... [Individual.com - 3 hours ago]
Family Intervention Projects drive improvements [Communitycare.co.uk - 3 hours ago]

Blogs

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A great EU stitch-up that demeans democracy \| D... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 1 hour ago] The appointments of Herman Van Rompuy and Cathy Ashton lay bare the rot at the core of the Lisbon projectIt's not often that the front pages of the Daily Mail and ...
Goethe capers [Oliver Kamm - 1 hour ago] I wrote in my Pedant column last month about the quotation from Goethe that Gordon Brown had used for his Labour conference speech. I hadn't marked the PM down as ...
Where are all the MPs? Watching parliament on TV [Politics: Politics blog \| guardian.co.uk - 8 hours ago] The televising of the Commons, begun 20 years ago, was inevitable – but it has diminished the chamberIs it really 20 years since they fitted new, brighter lights ...
Drumbeat: November 20, 2009 [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our ... - 9 hours ago] Peak Oil Files: Why Is Saudi Aramco Building Supercomputers? The biannual list of the world’s 500 fastest computers was released on Tuesday and Aramco had two new ...
Ashton underlines EU's significant moment \| Joh... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 9 hours ago] Pay no attention to the Eurosceptics. Cathy Ashton's posting as EU 'foreign secretary' is a major post-Lisbon developmentThe chorus of ill-informed and patronising ...

Audio/Video

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Brown salutes flood death PC [ITN News - YouTube - 2 hours ago]
Gordon Brown reacts to news of devastating floo... [ITN News - YouTube - 9 hours ago]
Brown congratulates Ashton on EU job [ITN News - YouTube - 11/19/2009]
PM Defends Queen's Speech [Sky News - YouTube - 11/18/2009]
Brown announces Afghan exit summit [ITN News - YouTube - 11/17/2009]

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