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Ed Miliband is new UK Labour Party leader (AP)

September 25th, 2010

** CORRECTS SPELLING OF MILIBAND ** FILE - British Labour leadership candidates David Miliband, left, his brother Ed Miliband at a trades union congress in Southport, England, Monday, June 7, 2010. Britain's brother-versus-brother fight for the soul — and leadership — of the opposition Labour Party comes to an end Saturday Sept 25 2010, promising to determine whether the organization keeps the centrist philosophy of Tony Blair or returns to its working class roots. (AP Photo/Tim Hales, file)AP - Britain’s opposition Labour Party elected young lawmaker Ed Miliband as its new leader Saturday after he narrowly defeated his older and better-known brother in a contest to replace…

With government at stake, UK’s Brown to resign (AP)

May 10th, 2010

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown reads a statement to the media statement outside 10 Downing Street in London, Monday May 10, 2010, in which he said he intended to stand down as Labour Party leader.(AP Photo/Simon Dawson)AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a dramatic bid to keep his beleaguered Labour Party in power after it was punished in a national election, announcing Monday he…

UK’s Gordon Brown to resign as prime minister (AP)

May 10th, 2010

Prime Minister Gordon Brown leaves the Ambassador's entrance of the Foreign Office in central London Sunday May 9, 2010. Senior party leaders from Britain's Conservatives and Liberal Democrats scrambled to hammer out a new government Sunday, amid fears that prolonged political uncertainty would stoke market jitters when trading reopens Monday. David Cameron's right-of-center Conservatives won 306 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons in Thursday's national election but failed to secure a majority. For the first time since 1974, voting resulted in a 'hung Parliament' — no party is able to take overall control of the country.(AP Photo/Steve Parsona/PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - In a dramatic bid to keep the Labour party in power, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday he will resign by September but first hopes to broker…

Labour, Conservatives court third-place UK party (AP)

May 7th, 2010

Britain's Conservatives party leader David Cameron, back dropped by a picture of World War II era British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, reads a statement to members of the media in central London, Friday, May 7, 2010. Cameron whose Conservatives outpolled ruling Labour party but fell short of winning a majority in Parliament, claimed that voters had rejected Labour in Britain's national election Thursday. Britain's two main parties were locked in a power struggle Friday after an inconclusive election with Labour's Gordon Brown suggesting he would try to form a coalition and Conservative leader David Cameron insisting the prime minister no longer had a mandate to govern. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, Pool)AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Conservative challenger David Cameron each made their case Friday for a coalition with the party that finished third in Britain’s elections, hoping…

UK’s top 2 parties jockey for small party support (AP)

May 7th, 2010

Britain's Liberal Democrats party leader, Nick Clegg speaks to the media as he arrives at their headquarter in London as election results are still being counted, Friday, Friday 7, 2010. The Conservatives strongly outpolled Labour in Britain's general election Thursday but were projected to fall short of being able to govern outright. Labour was on track to lose nearly 90 seats in Parliament but still thwarted the Conservatives from a victory that only a few months ago was considered inevitable .The biggest — and surprise — loser was Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg, who failed to capitalize on his stellar TV debate performances, leaving his party stuck in its distant, third-place status. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has made a bid to stay in office after Britain’s indecisive election, saying he is prepared to speak to any other party about…

UK’s Brown might attempt to form coalition govt (AP)

May 6th, 2010

The leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown, left, and his wife Sarah, right, are seen arriving to the count at Kirkcaldy, Scotland, in the early hours of Friday, May 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown indicated Friday he might attempt to form a coalition government, seeking to keep his Labour Party in power following an election in which…

Gordon Brown: a survivor fighting to avoid defeat (AP)

May 2nd, 2010

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown meets local residents during a visit to Dulwich and West Norwood in London Sunday, May 2, 2010. Britain goes to the polls in a general election May 6. (AP Photo/ Dan Kitwood, PA ) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - Gordon Brown has never made politics look easy, and Britain’s hard-fought election campaign has been a grueling trial for the incumbent prime minister.


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UK to send warships to get stranded Britons (AP)

April 19th, 2010

The volcano in southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier sends ash into the air Saturday, April 17, 2010. The Icelandic volcano that has kept much of Europe land-bound is far from finished spitting out its grit, and offered up new mini-eruptions Saturday that raise concerns about longer-term damage to world air travel and trade. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti)AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown says Britain is sending Royal Navy warships to rescue Britons stranded by the volcanic ash cloud.


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Parties scramble as Britain sets May 6 election (AP)

April 6th, 2010

FILE - In this Wednesday March 24, 2010 file photo Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown attends the Budget Cabinet at 10 Downing Street in central London. A day before he is expected to announce a national election Gordon Brown said Monday April 5, 2010 that only his Labour Party can be trusted to nurture Britain's fragile economic recovery. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, Pool, File)AP - Britain will hold a national election May 6, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Tuesday. The bitterly contested race will be dominated by a recession-wracked economy and a sense…

UK’s Brown calls national election for May 6 (AP)

April 6th, 2010

Britain's Conservative Party leader David Cameron arrives at the Teenage Cancer trust unit at University College Hospital in London, Monday April 5, 2010. A day before he is expected to announced a national election, Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday April 5, 2010 that only his Labour Party can be trusted to nurture Britain's fragile economic recovery. (AP Photo/Richard Pohle)AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday declared a national election for May 6 — a bitterly contested race that will be dominated by a recession-wracked economy and a…

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