Britain's Brown vows to lead Labour into elections

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted he won't quit his post as his governing Labour Party met Sunday for its annual convention before a national election the party is expected to lose.

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Britain's Labour Party seeks winning formula

It's a challenging time for British politics — not to mention Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party, which starts its annual convention Sunday.

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Brown’s U.K. government teeters near collapse

- It would be a bitter fate for a former wunderkind who ceded the top job to the Tony Blair for a decade: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown could be forced out just short of two years into the job he has long coveted, felled by the toxic combination of a scandal over lawmakers’ expenses, an economy in decline and a resurgent Conservative opposition.

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Striking UK refinery workers vote to end walkout

Striking workers at a British refinery voted unanimously Thursday to end their wildcat walkout over the hiring of foreign workers.

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U.K. ponders bigger shift in bank crisis

- During the go-go years of the late 1990s and early 2000s, Britain found itself at the center of the world’s economy. Conventional wisdom had it that The City — London's financial district — had surpassed Wall Street as the global money center.

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Top Official in UK Labour Party Resigns

The British Labour Party's general secretary resigned Monday amid allegations that a wealthy donor violated campaign finance rules by giving the party $825,000 without revealing his identity.

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UK's Diplomacy Chief Vows New Approach

Britain's new foreign policy chief promised a shift in how the country approaches international relations Tuesday, citing humbling lessons of the Iraq war and signaling a fresh path from that of his graying predecessors.

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Clinton Warns British Labour Not to Rest

Former President Bill Clinton charmed Britain's Labour Party with effusive praise Wednesday, but warned delegates to remind voters of their accomplishments to avoid suffering a defeat like America's Democrats.

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Blair Defines Legacy in Final Address

Prime Minister Tony Blair, in his final address to his governing Labour Party, said Tuesday that being the United States' strongest ally can be difficult but it is crucial to stay close to Washington in the fight against terrorism.

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Blair Dodges Questions on His Successor

Prime Minister Tony Blair dodged questions Sunday about who he favors to succeed him, saying the public was angry with his Labour Party for getting bogged down in political intrigue rather than running the country.

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Sweeping powers to be introduced by Erope on snooping. When the Lisbon treaty is ratified things will get much worse. I see big Brother is on its way (Not the tv programe) Our freedoms under new labour have been eroded away slowly for years.

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Amid the sound and fury over Nick Griffin, there's a sad but unnoticed fact: it has taken this fiasco to make politicians talk about the impact of immigration. Yesterday MPs Frank Field and Nicholas Soames called for a 75 per cent cut in immigration and accused the Government of …

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Newsagents try to blackmail labour over the threat of banning Tobacco on display.

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If Europe does get a president, it definitely won't be Tony Blair

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Harriet Harman is being investigated by police after allegedly leaving the scene of an accident in which she drove into a parked car while talking on her mobile phone.

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Vernon Bogdanor sums up PM Brown's position, and the level of votes the Tories and David Cameron must garner at the general election in May 2010 to win.

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We're told that unions are the best thing since sliced bread, but most Americans avoid them as we would a porcupine who recently attacked a skunk's posterior...why is that? Here are some reasons...

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It is possible to bring Catholic values to the ongoing debate over health care reform just as it was done earlier this year in forging a four-way agreement on the potential unionization of workers at Catholic hospitals, said Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y.

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Outstanding UK-based Australian journalist John Pilger on the ethical violations of the Murdoch media empire: "Murdoch's most obsequious supplicants are politicians, especially New Labour. "

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Coconut palm climbers are a rarity these days in Kerala and other coconut growing states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharastra and Goa, with very few taking on the traditional profession.

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We know what happens when movements or parties continue to stagger forward after running out of ideas: They become zombies.

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ENOUGH! I wonder who walked away from the table this time?!?!?

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"Any employee may be asked to perform any duties that are reasonable and within their capabilities. By you relieving reception on a regular basis..."

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Don't use local polls to throw stones at national parties. But do reward the most principled pro-EU party we have

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More than 50 of the party's MPs are scrambling for a place in the upper house. The only aspiration they still stand for is their own

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The Maskiyot project was first mooted some three years ago, and was intended to house Jewish settler families evacuated from Gaza following Israel's 2005 unilateral pullout from the strip.

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DAVID Cameron vowed to clean up Tory MPs' expenses last night in an unexpected address to the nation. He used his TV party political broadcast, due to cover May's elections, to pledge an end to the sickening excess.

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Mum- of-three Kerstin Frank gave birth to a healthy baby boy after bungling doctors diagnosed her swollen tummy as a tumour. Kerstin was admitted for surgery and was just hours from going under the knife when she started to go into labour.

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How much trouble is the Republican party in? Plenty. Compounding its recent miseries, too numerous to mention, Arlen Specter, the independent-minded senator for Pennsylvania, has gone over to the other side. [...]

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