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British elections stories: 9 news summaries

 As 4th Minister Quits, 
 Brown's Outlook Bleak 

Blears resigns in potentially fatal blow to PM's authority

Jun 3, 09 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - With one day to go before clutch British elections, another minister resigned from Gordon Brown's Cabinet today, dealing the beleaguered PM another devastating blow. Hazel Blears, an arch-Blairite who was exposed for avoiding $21,000 in capital gains tax, refused to praise Brown in her resignation statement. She is the... More »

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United Kingdom • British Parliament • Gordon Brown • British elections • Labour • inappropriate expenses • Blairites

New Election Loss Could Be Knock-Out Punch for Brown

Tory takes vacancy in industrial district

May 23, 08 2:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - The crushing defeat for the Labor Party yesterday in an election in a working class district of England could spell disaster for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, reports the Guardian. The opposition Tory candidate beat the ruling party choice in a by-election to fill a death vacancy by a whopping margin... More »

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United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • British elections • England • Labour Party • Conservative Party • Tory Party • David Cameron • Britain

 Brown, Labor Savaged
 in UK Elections 

Labor posts worst election results in 40 years

May 2, 08 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Labor has suffered its worst showing in 40 years in local elections across England and Wales. Just one year after Gordon Brown became prime minister, his party pulled only 24% of the projected national vote, 20 points behind the Tories and behind even the third-party Liberal Democrats. As for the... More »

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London • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • British elections • Ken Livingstone • Labour Party • Tories • Conservative Party • Liberal Democrats • Boris Johnson

Down in Polls, Brown Admits 'Mistakes' 

Ahead of UK local voting, PM confesses tax missteps

Apr 30, 08 3:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - With polls predicting big losses for his Labour party in tomorrow’s local elections, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown admitted he’d made mistakes in the past six months, Reuters reports. Chiefly, Brown acknowledged increasing the tax burden on the lowest-paid workers and those aged 60-64, but said both problems... More »

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Gordon Brown • British elections • Labour • Ken Livingstone • Labour Party • home prices • housing crisis

Tories Try to Fight Off Early UK Election

Conservatives prepare for disaster, and some prefer Brown anyway

Oct 2, 07 1:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Britain's Conservatives are having their annual meeting this week, and the party is desperate to put on a brave face and scare Gordon Brown away from an early election. But as David Cameron, the Tories' 40-year-old modernizing leader, prepares for his make-or-break speech tomorrow, one columnist reports that in private... More »

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Gordon Brown • British elections • Conservative Party • Tory Party • David Cameron

'Scars' of Iraq Evident in Britain: Minister

Military action not end in itself, Miliband says at party conference

Sep 26, 07 2:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Britain's new foreign secretary has proposed a break with Blair-era policy and admitted his country was "scarred" by failures of the Iraq war. In his address yesterday to the annual Labour Party conference, David Miliband dismissed the idea of a "military 'solution'" to the world's problems. But at... More »

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Gordon Brown • British elections • David Miliband • Labour Party • Iraq war

UK Chatters
About Elections
as Polls Narrow

Labour's lead shrinks but Brown won't rule out an early vote

Sep 4, 07 11:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - As London returns from holiday, the press and the parliament are still whispering about when Gordon Brown will call a general election. Although he can delay until as late as 2010, the Prime Minister can hold a vote any time, and British papers are debating whether he may rush it... More »

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British Parliament • Gordon Brown • British elections • Labour Party • Britain

Blair Ally
to Step Down

Home secretary's surprise announcement frees new PM
to overhaul cabinet

May 7, 07 9:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - British Home Secretary John Reid will stand down, he announced yesterday, giving PM apparent Gordon Brown space to rejigger the cabinet when he succeeds Tony Blair. Tensions have run high between the old and new Labour leaders' supporters, but Reid stressed that his surprise departure was personal; the Guardian reports... More »

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Tony Blair • Gordon Brown • British elections • John Reid • Labour • British Cabinet • Jack Straw • Britain

Labour Party Escapes Election Catastrophe

Pro-independence faction takes control
of Scottish parliament

May 4, 07 3:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tony Blair's Labour Party took a beating in yesterday's local elections, winning just 27 percent of the vote. But both the party—wildly unpopular because of Blair's Iraq war stance and several recent scandals—and pundits scored the result a minor victory because Labour lost only 410 local council seats... More »

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Tony Blair • United Kingdom • British elections • Scotland • Labour Party • Tories • Scottish National Party • Britain • Iraq war

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