Mar 27, 2020 · Former UK prime minister Gordon Brown has urged world leaders to create a temporary form of global government to deal with the coronavirus crisis. Brown said the proposed global taskforce should oversee and support the development of a vaccine and the production and distribution of medical equipment, and help to deal with the economic fallout ...

Jan 9, 2025 · Ex-UK PM Gordon Brown calls for global government to tackle coronavirus pandemic. Former UK prime minister Gordon Brown has urged world leaders to create a temporary form of global government to deal with the coronavirus crisis. Brown said the …

Nov 25, 2024 · Thatcher and John Major’s governments sold off swathes of the UK’s utilities and infrastructure, and Labour’s 1997-2010 administrations made no attempt to turn the tide: indeed, chancellor Gordon Brown’s Private Finance Initiative …

Sep 14, 2022 · Tom Scholar is the best civil servant of his generation. Sacking him makes no sense. His experience would have been invaluable in the coming months as government policy places massive upward pressure on the cost of funding. As Gordon Brown used to say "they're not thinking". — Nick Macpherson (@nickmacpherson2) September 8, 2022

That tally of prime ministers reached four: Labour’s Blair and his successor Gordon Brown, plus the Conservatives’ David Cameron and Theresa May. For Heywood had a remarkable talent for winning the trust of ministers – who recognised both his unrivalled ability to push reforms and policies through Whitehall, and his complete commitment to ...

Jan 23, 2025 · Gus O’Donnell served Prime Ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron as Cabinet Secretary and Head of Civil Service from 2005 to 2011. He stood down from this position at the end of 2011 and was appointed to the House of Lords in January 2012.

Jan 22, 2025 · The report argues that under powerful former chancellors Gordon Brown and George Osborne, the UK’s finance department developed excessive influence over policymaking in spending departments.

Aug 27, 2020 · Chakrabarti has discussed this issue with former UK prime minister Gordon Brown, who was widely credited with coordinating a global response to that economic shock, and “he says there was a missed opportunity, in terms of using the stimulus packages that were put in [during the financial crisis] or afterwards to really tilt to green,” he ...

Oct 22, 2024 · I worked for Gordon Brown for four years: this is not a crisis!” Tom Baldwin, a former Labour communications director and Starmer biographer, also called for a sense of proportion. “No policy has been changed; no public money’s involved; no corruption, no law-breaking, no rules broken,” he said.

Mar 14, 2019 · Gordon Brown’s Labour Party, of course, paid a high political price for allowing the perception to be created that his much-touted commitment to “prudence” was only skin-deep. And the fate of Greece, which for some ten years has endured the longest recession ever to hit an advanced capitalist economy, provides another salutary lesson.