Brilliant! Gordon Brown yesterday issued his strongest hint that British troops will start to quit Afghanistan by the end of next year. In a major shift of strategy, the Prime Minister said a target to train up 134,000 Afghan soldiers will be brought forward by a year to December 2010. He announced that cutting troop […]
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BERLIN, Germany (CNN) — The world needs a “global New Deal” to haul it out of the economic crisis it faces, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom said Sunday. Gordon Brown addresses a press conference following a G20 preparatory meeting in Berlin, Sunday. “We need a global New Deal — a grand bargain […]
In a speech, he will urge countries to avoid “muddling through as pessimists” and “make the necessary adjustment to a better future and setting the new rules for this new global order”, according to his office. Official data confirmed Friday that Britain is in recession. Days earlier, the government unveiled a new package of measures […]