UK Politics and Current Events

In this week's show we discuss the government's A 500bn rescue plan for Britain's banks unveiled by Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling Joining Nick around the table is Bill Keegan , the Observer's economics ...  

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has condemned as "completely unacceptable" and "illegal" the attitude of Iceland's government, after it froze bank accounts held by British savers amid attempts to bolster the country's failing banks.  

The Icelandic government is said to be angry at the approach of the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown concerning depositors of Landsbanki. (Read IceSave customers to get UK support). Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde, who held a press conference this afternoon, compared the approach of “further...  

BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown has defended his Government's half-trillion-pound bank rescue plan and has urged European counterparts to follow suit.  

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has defended his government's half-trillion-pound bank rescue plan, and urged European counterparts to follow suit to help begin easing the global credit crunch.  

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, left, looks on during a news conference, with Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, right, at 10 Downing Street Gordon Brown hailed the Government's £50 billion emergency rescue plan to part-nationalise ...  

Gordon Brown has hailed the Government's 50 billion bank bail-out plan, saying it should restore "confidence and trust" to the financial system.  

Asked if this was a possible policy option, the PMS replied that the Government was not going to speculate on policy options. Asked what the Government's ...  

Hilary Benn remains in charge at DEFRA but it's all change for the junior DEFRA team after Prime Minister Gordon Brown reshuffled his government.  

Downing Street denies dithering over banking crisis. Gordon Brown told the first meeting of his new cabinet that the government stood ready to take whatever action was necessary to see the country through the current global economic ...  

Labour's deputy leader texts friends to say decision to remove Parmjit Dhanda is bad for government and party David Hencke , Westminster correspondent Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy leader, has privately ...  

Paris, Oct 5 (DPA) To help prop up their banking systems, European Union (EU) leaders have agreed to relax the requirements of the Stability and Growth Pact, which imposes rules on member states regarding their public spending.French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel...  

Britain's prime minister is holding telephone talks with Germany's chancellor on Europe's financial crisis. Government spokesman Michael Ellam says Prime Minister Gordon Brown will ask Chancellor Angela Merkel to clarify her government's pledge to guarantee personal bank accounts in Germany...  

EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has decided to step down from the position to take a spot in the cabinet of U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government.  

Even a watered-down pledge by the European Union's top leaders to "coordinate" individual efforts to shore up the troubled banking sector proved overly ambitious, undercutting the euro and exacerbating losses across European equity markets on Monday, economists said. The hastily-called Paris...