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...For a spell in 2008, it was the world’s biggest bank by assets until being bailed out by Gordon Brown’s Labour government a month after Lehman collapsed....
...euro set by Gordon Brown in 1997, the group suggests Brexit should be evaluated on its ability to promote economic health, fairness, openness and control....
...Andrew Tyrie, the committee chairman, this week promised a “period of reflection”....
...Mr Dugher, a one-time adviser to Gordon Brown, said that opposition was incredibly tough....
...He said that Gordon Brown had given a speech three weeks ago at Warwick university, but “got no coverage — even in the Guardian”....
...Kirsty Brown in Scotland tweeted: “We have been hacked, all money gone, no email or text!! Appalling response from Tesco so far.” The bank’s reputation also took a pounding from politicians....
...Brown shoe firm Deutsche Bank is using online behavioural tests to hire investment bankers resembling the ones it has already. This is a brave strategy....
...Like Gordon Brown before him, George Osborne cannot resist the temptation to fiddle....
...“In some ways low borrowing rates sound fantastic for a country,” says Mr Brown at Citigroup....
...In 2000, the TSC asked then chancellor Gordon Brown to reconsider the selection of Christopher Allsopp to the MPC, but Mr Brown decided to brush aside the request....
...Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Commons treasury committee, said: “Nick has done an outstanding job, handling very different chancellors, and not all of them the easiest of characters....
...In 2000, the committee called on then chancellor Gordon Brown to reconsider the selection of Christopher Allsopp to the MPC, though Mr Brown chose to ignore their advice....
...In 2000, the Treasury select committee called on then chancellor Gordon Brown to reconsider the selection of Christopher Allsopp to the MPC, but Mr Brown chose to ignore their advice....
...Andrew Tyrie, who chairs the House of Commons Treasury select committee, said the minutes showed the central bank did not have a board worthy of the name....
...Civil servants said it made a refreshing change after the toxicity of the Blair-Brown years....
...Mark Blyth, Brown University, Providence RI, US...
...“Gordon Brown was wrong in what he said....
...The criticism is stinging given that Mr Osborne made a great deal out of his decision in 2010 to scrap Gordon Brown’s pre-budget report to break with Labour and signal a return to more normal economic policy...
...Malcolm Brown, director of the mission and public affairs division, says the Church wants to overturn the perception that credit unions are “the poor man’s banks”....
...Certainly he would love to be able to convince voters that Gordon Brown’s administration – apart from running the economy incompetently – also burdened the state with a bloated bill for rescuing the banks...
...However, Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the House of Commons Treasury committee, said he wanted to study the legal fine print of the deal, saying such agreements did not always look so good in the cold light...
...Andrew Tyrie, Tory chairman of the Commons treasury committee, believes Mr Osborne’s approach has made a bi-partisan inquiry into the affair very difficult, while one senior Tory MP said: “Osborne has overplayed...
...Those around Mr Brown were “clearly involved” he said....
...His main target is Mr Balls, who was Gordon Brown’s economic consigliere, but was children's’ secretary at the time of the 2008 crash....
...Mr Osborne’s team believe that a short inquiry, focused on the Libor-fixing scandal of the past decade, would put the spotlight on Labour’s regulatory regime, overseen by Gordon Brown and Ed Balls, his economic...
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