London, Apr 7 : British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has claimed over 17,000 pounds in second-home expenses under the MPs expenses system despite moving into a grace-and-favour apartment in Downing Street after becoming Prime Minister.
Brown changed the definition of his "main home" after moving into Number 10, a decision that allowed him to continue benefiting from generous MPs expenses system.
London - Britain will offer to send extra troops to Afghanistan "subject to appropriate burden sharing" by other NATO allies, government officials in London said Friday.
They said Prime Minister Gordon Brown would make an announcement to that effect at the NATO summit in Strasbourg marking the 60th birthday of the alliance.
The "temporary troop increase" would be aimed at providing security during the upcoming presidential election in Afghanistan in August.
London, Apr. 1 : After its announcement that the taxpayers will be forced to pay 13.2 million pounds-a-year to bail out MPs' pensions, the Gordon Brown Government is facing opposition from both the taxpaying general public and Conservatives.
Annual Treasury contributions are to be raised by an extra 800,000 pounds a year to help fill a 50 million pounds black hole into the Parliamentary pension scheme, according to last night's announcement.
London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged world leaders Monday to "rise to the challenge" of beating the global recession but admitted that "tough negotiations" would be necessary to reach agreement at this week's Group of 20 (G20) summit.
"We no doubt have some long days of negotiation ahead. These are difficult and complex problems. It will not be easy to reach the conclusions that I believe are necessary for the world economy," said Brown.
London - The leaders of Britain and Australia said Monday they were confident that this week's London summit of Group of 20 (G20) nations would achieve progress towards forging a new international consensus on how to put the world economy back on a path of recovery.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, speaking after talks with Kevin Rudd, his Australian counterpart, said he had seen an "unprecedented global response to an unprecedented crisis" in his talks with world leaders ahead of the summit.
London, Apr 7 : British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has claimed over 17,000 pounds in second-home expenses under the MPs expenses system despite moving into a grace-and-favour apartment in Downing Street after becoming Prime Minister.
London, Apr 5 : British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a huge boost in the polls due to the success of the G20 summit and President Barack Obama's visit.
London - Britain will offer to send extra troops to Afghanistan "subject to appropriate burden sharing" by other NATO allies, government officials in London said Friday.
London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged world leaders Monday to "rise to the challenge" of beating the global recession but admitted that "tough negotiations" would be necessary to reach agreement at this week's Group of 20 (G20) summit.
London - The leaders of Britain and Australia said Monday they were confident that this week's London summit of Group of 20 (G20) nations would achieve progress towards forging a new international consensus on how to put the world economy back on a path of recovery.
