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Brown reshuffles cabinet to tackle crisis

By Jim Pickard, Political Correspondent Peter Mandelson, European Union trade commissioner, is to make a surprise return to the cabinet as Gordon Brown made tackling the growing financial crisis the main priority of his...

Brown turns to old foe

By Jim Pickard, Political Correspondent Peter Mandelson has made a startling return to Westminster as he came back from Brussels to join Gordon Brown’s government in an unexpectedly dramatic cabinet reshuffle that saw the prime...

Mandelson returns to UK cabinet

Peter Mandelson, EU trade commissioner, is to make a surprise return to the British government after he accepted the job of business secretary, in a bigger shake-up of Gordon Brown's cabinet than was expected

Brown seen poised for reshuffle

Speculation was growing that Gordon Brown was poised to announce a reshuffle of his cabinet on Thursday or Friday, with vacancies ranging from transport secretary to trade minister, though insiders dismissed rumours of a move...

Party urged to adjust to new reality

By George Parker and Jim Pickard At the Labour conference in Manchester there is an area dedicated to “press briefings”. The briefing zone, littered with empty plastic cups and discarded newspapers, is a fitting metaphor...

Brown focuses on 'big issues'

By Jean Eaglesham and Jim Pickard David Cairns’s self-characterised state of “wretchedness” in quitting his government post could stand as an epithet for the present state of the Labour party, seemingly unable to prevent a...

Anger over Brown's 'flimsy' fuel deal

By George Parker and Jim Pickard Gordon Brown’s long-awaited £1bn fuel package was launched on Thursday to a chorus of criticism from Labour supporters and poverty campaigners and a warning from energy generators that it...

Landowners attack UK coastal path plan

06-Sep-2008

By Jim Pickard, Political Correspondent Farmers and landowners have warned that plans for a £50m ($88m) national coastal path that would trace the entire periphery of the UK are badly thought-out and underfunded. The new...

Doubts on real cost of stamp duty cut

By Jim Pickard, Political Correspondent Gordon Brown has vastly exaggerated the amount of money needed to pay for the surprise cut in stamp duty for homebuyers, experts said yesterday. The Treasury had claimed that the...

Homes package mired in confusion

02-Sep-2008

By George Parker and Jim Pickard Gordon Brown began his battle on Tuesday to reassert his political authority with a package of measures to boost the housing market, but his initiative was immediately mired in confusion...

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