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...This was down to the political leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who brought the lives of the world’s poorest people into the heart of Whitehall.”...
...Benn has extensive government experience, having served as a cabinet minister under Blair and his successor Gordon Brown....
...Gordon described the 11m height cut-off point in the legislation as a “totally arbitrary” level....
...Britain after Brexit is edited by Gordon Smith. Premium subscribers can sign up here to have it delivered straight to their inbox every Thursday afternoon....
...The idea that Blair was a shallow smoothie and Gordon Brown a deep but tongue-tied man is primitive analysis....
...So I’ve returned to another favourite author, the recently deceased Hilary Mantel....
...Now for the rest of today’s news — Gordon Five more stories in the news 1....
...(FT) Hilary Mantel’s ‘The Mirror and the Light’ What does it take to restore the dead and their world to the land of the living?...
...cures to robot helpers, the decade promises major developments 2020 visions: the year ahead in books The writers offering solutions for — or escape from — a new decade, from cures for a sick planet to Hilary...
...True, there was a hiatus under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, when these ideas were dropped as outmoded, and the “filthy rich” enjoined to pay their taxes....
...After becoming an MP in 2005, she occasionally rebelled against the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but then backed Yvette Cooper, a moderate, in the 2015 leadership campaign....
...Some former Blairite ministers, such as Alan Milburn and James Purnell, had left politics after clashes with Gordon Brown, while others such as Ed Balls and Jim Murphy lost their seats last year....
...Labour’s Hilary Benn has been elected chair of the cross-party Brexit committee of MPs, beating a challenge from the pro-Leave MP Kate Hoey....
...Those considered likely to accept frontbench jobs — if offered — could include Chuka Umunna, Rachel Reeves, Angela Eagle, Maria Eagle and Hilary Benn....
...Gordon Brown will throw his weight behind the campaign for Britain to remain in the EU on Monday, with an impassioned plea to Labour supporters to reject Brexit....
...Hilary Mantel and Diarmaid MacCulloch The British Academy Lecture: Thomas Cromwell April 1, 2pm Sheldonian, £15-£25 Two-time Booker Prize-winner Hilary Mantel and historian and broadcaster Professor Sir...
...You know things are getting serious when Gordon Brown is wheeled out....
...With the referendum campaign entering its final full week, Gordon Brown, the former Labour prime minister, will make an impassioned appeal to supporters in Leicester to highlight the threats to public services...
...Mr Corbyn voted 428 times against the Blair and Gordon Brown governments but remained in relative obscurity until his election as leader in 2015....
...Gordon Brown has invoked Britain’s history of leadership in Europe, as the former prime minister tried to rally Labour supporters behind the faltering Remain campaign....
...Hilary Benn survived as shadow foreign secretary despite arguing for war against jihadis in Syria last month, but his truce with the leader seems conditional on restraining his own views....
...As an ally of Gordon Brown he engineered a rebellion against Tony Blair 10 years ago, forcing the former prime minister to set a departure date....
...In the end he agreed to back “Remain” as part of the negotiations surrounding the appointment of his first shadow cabinet in September: it was a precondition of Hilary Benn serving as his shadow foreign...
...Ms Eagle, in particular, is seen by business groups as a pragmatic figure, having served in the Treasury under Gordon Brown....
...Hilary Benn — Shadow foreign secretary Son of the legendary hard left activist Tony Benn, Hilary followed his father into the Labour party from an early age but is a political centrist and describes himself...
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