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Bad times have been good for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Soon after taking office in June 2007, he sank to levels of unpopularity unprecedented in postwar Britain. Then came the Panic of '08, and suddenly the former chancellor of the Exchequer was in his element. By moving quickly to pump public money into failing banks, Brown earned high marks around the world. On the day Paul Krugman of The New York Times was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, he lavished praise on Brown in a column headlined GORDON DOES GOOD; Brown, he wrote, had "defined the character of the worldwide rescue effort, with other wealthy nations playing catch-up." The glory may fade. A recent IMF report warned that Britain will be hit harder by the coming storm than any other advanced economy. (Story continued below...)

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  • Posted By: anth @ 02/10/2009 2:57:17 AM

    what a gready bunch of toe rags we have for a goverment . Every day one or them is in the press for fiddling there EXS .Peaple are going hungry and cant afford to heat there flats while all these M.P.s live it up they should all be ashamened

  • Posted By: Aziz Zerban is the nam @ 12/30/2008 2:42:08 PM

    Brown is a joke and where is the Queen of England?, she has been on the power list for the last 50 years and must still be up there considering she is head of state for around 20% of the worlds nations.

  • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 12/23/2008 10:51:23 AM

    only brown could have saved britain from going bankrupt because of the bush blair business -and the exchequer did the job

    deserves 5 more years
    damned better then cameron

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