The comments come in a submission from the union to the BBC Trust, which is conducting a consultation on cuts which were proposed by director-general Mark Thompson in March. Mr Thompson has proposed to close the radio stations 6 Music and Asian Network and the youth services Switch and Blast!, as well as capping spending [...]
Andy Murray playing on Centre Court at Wimbledon Photo: EDDIE MULHOLLAND It could inspire Andy Murray to go one step further than last year and reach the Wimbledon final. Mandrake can disclose that the Queen plans to attend the tournament for the first time in more than [...]
Tony Blair’s memoirs are to be published this September, and will be followed inevitably by Gordon Brown’s Photo: REX Some years ago, researching my first book, I went to see the retired American politician Eugene McCarthy, who had been the Democratic Senator from Minnesota for 20 [...]
When David Miliband announced his candidacy for the Labour Party leadership this week, he was surrounded outside the House of Commons by a band of MPs so un-telegenic that they were described by one wag as looking “as if they had been handpicked with the sole intention of making [him] look normal”.The former Foreign Secretary [...]
Greek Communist Party members wave flags from the Acropolis Photo: AFP/Getty Images The unprecedented €750bn rescue package agreed by European policy makers this week to combat the sovereign-debt crisis threatening the euro was necessary, Mr Ackermann said, because if Greece were to “fall down” this could [...]
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. David Cameron gives his first speech as Prime Minister outside 10 Downing Street [...]
Previous of Images Next Gordon Brown’s resignation pushed sterling briefly above $1.50. Photo: Reuters Pound rises above $1.50 on the resignation of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister. Photo: Bloomberg Negotiators for both their parties met this afternoon [...]
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. David Cameron: ”It is now.. decision time for the Liberal Democrats” The Lib [...]
Nick Clegg’s Lib Dems remain in talks with the Conservatives and Labour The process of forming a new government may be resolved in the next 24 hours, according to a senior Liberal Democrat source who said it was "crunch time".The Lib Dems have [...]
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he will step down within months as leader of the country and his party, but the U.K’s confused political landscape was thrown into further chaos as his Labour Party began talks to form a government despite finishing second in last week’s inconclusive election. Mr. Brown’s announcement, delivered outside [...]
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