Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah arrive in Brighton ahead of the 2009 Labour Party Conference. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Alistair Darling has revealed his frustration at the collapse in Labour morale under Gordon Brown, accusing his party – from ...
Britain is emerging from the worldwide recession in better shape than many rivals, and voters should give Gordon Brown the credit, Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says today in an interview with Observer columnist Will Hutton. Krugman, who ...
Unions and employers say rejecting short-time working schemes may mean more job losses. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Young people out of work will be targeted by a £2bn package to help the jobless in this week's budget, the Observer can reveal, ...
An estimated £700bn has been lost in the housing market since the downturn began. Photo: Getty/Jeff J Mitchell Every taxpayer in the country has lost almost £40,000 since the onset of the credit crunch, as plunging house prices and the savage sell-off ...
Almost four in five British businesses are cutting back on everything from hiring new staff to paying for the office Christmas party, as they batten down the hatches for a deep recession.Even before Friday's official figures revealed that the economy ...
Jim Murphy, the Scottish Secretary, admitted that Labour were still 'the underdogs' in the Glenrothes byelection as Gordon Brown made a fleeting visit to the town yesterday.The prime minister met six hand-picked Labour voters in a cafe owned by a party ...
Gordon Brown will try to broker a Europe-wide bail-out of banks today modelled on Britain's £500bn intervention, warning that the 'stakes could not be higher' for jobs, mortgages and the future of the economy. The Prime Minister told The Observer that ...
The Tories will today promise new help to get Britons through difficult times and a massive overhaul of the public finances to prevent future 'credit binges' wrecking the economy. George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, will pledge to bring Britain back ...
Homeowners facing the threat of repossession could be offered 'mortgage holidays' from their payments and other deals to keep them under their own roof under proposals to be discussed at a government summit this week. The Chancellor, Alistair Darling, ...
Drivers face a massive new campaign to force them out of gas-guzzling cars into greener vehicles under proposals at the heart of this week's Budget. Manufacturers would have to reveal the environmental costs of 4x4s and high-performance sports cars in a ...
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