Brown voices regret over aide’s Tory plot, but refuses to apologise

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - A heated row has cropped up between 10, Downing Street and BBC after a reporter shocked the Prime Minister during a live television interview on the opening day of Labour's annual conference in Brighton by asking whether he took pills to help him "get through". Brown's aides last night said they were amazed that despite issuing denials to an internet rumor in recent weeks, and specifically to the BBC, the reporter - Andrew Marr still went ahead and asked the question.

September 27th, 2009 LONDON - A recent poll has suggested that British voters think Tory leader David Cameron would make a better Prime Minister than Gordon Brown. According to the ICM survey for the News of the World, some 43 per cent voters said that Cameron was the best choice, while just 20 per cent believe that Brown is the best man for the job out of the current three main party leaders.

July 31st, 2009 LONDON - Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Government is now as unpopular as John Major's was the year before his Conservative party suffered a landslide general election defeat, according to a new poll. A Daily Telegraph YouGov poll found that 70 per cent of voters now disapprove of the Brown Government's record, with only 17 per cent approving of it.

June 20th, 2009 LONDON - Britain's embattled Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he is not interested in power, and could walk away from Downing Street at any moment.rown, who survived a backbench plot to oust him earlier this month, said: "To be honest, you could walk away from all of this tomorrow. "I'm not interested in what accompanies being in power.

June 7th, 2009 LONDON - Former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer has suggested British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to step down from leadership in a bid to reunite the Labour party. "I think we are moving moderately quickly towards the need for a change and that change may be a change in leadership.

June 6th, 2009 LONDON - In a humiliating blow for the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, The Daily Telegraph has reported that he claimed parliamentary expenses for his constituency home in Scotland, while billing the taxpayer for a flat in London. According to the report, Brown had claimed more than #28,000 in second home allowances after moving into Downing Street in 2006.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - Gordon Brown last night faced the prospect of becoming the first Prime Minister in British history to be dumped by e-mail.abour plotters are using Internet messages to persuade their backbench MPs to back a letter urging Brown to step down as PM and party leader. According to The Sun, they hope to get 120 signatures on the letter.

April 17th, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown finally bowed to pressure and said sorry for the "Smear Gate" e-mails sent by one of his closest aides, Damian McBride.pposition politicians welcomed Brown's apology, but said it had come late and left questions unanswered. The Government hoped it would draw a line under the affair, which erupted after emails between McBride, and pro-Labour blogger Derek Draper became public.

April 15th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actor Jamie Foxx has apologised to 'Hannah Montana' star Miley Cyrus after telling her to 'make a sex tape and grow up'. The actor-singer had verbally attacked 16-year-old Cyrus, advising her to take heroin 'like Britney Spears' and 'start seeing a lesbian' a la Lindsay Lohan, recently.

April 13th, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's close aide, Damian McBride, plotted to cripple Tory election hopes with a vile campaign of unfounded and obscene rumours. McBride, Brown's strategy chief, quit after e-mails detailing his sinister smear plan were leaked.

April 12th, 2009 LONDON - A close and senior aide to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has resigned after being found to have sent out emails suggesting a smear campaign targetting front-ranking members of the opposition Conservative Party. Damien McBride, a long-standing adviser to the ruling Labour Party, quit after the emails, sent from the Prime Minister's official 10 Downing Street email address, suggested a campaign against Conservative leader David Cameron, the shadow chancellor (finance minister) George Osborne and three other Tory MPs.

April 5th, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a huge boost in the polls due to the success of the G20 summit and President Barack Obama's visit. In the first survey since the summit ended on Thursday, 70 per cent of people thought the Prime Minister had handled events well.

March 23rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bharatiya Janashakti Party leader Uma Bharti Sunday asked rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh to apologise for expressing regret over the demolition of the Babri Masjid. Uma Bharti, who was suspended from the BJP in 2004 and then expelled in 2005, said she was upset over Kalyan Singh regretting the demolition of the 16th century mosque in Ayodhya in 1992.

February 12th, 2009 SHIMLA - The Himachal Pradesh government should apologise to the nation for publishing a map of India with wrong international boundaries in its official diary, the opposition Congress demanded in the state assembly Friday. The Congress attacked the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government over the glaring omissions in the India map and staged a walkout from the assembly.

February 6th, 2009 LONDON - A top British TV presenter has apologised for calling Prime Minister Gordon Brown a 'one-eyed Scottish idiot' - in a reference to Brown's loss of sight in one eye as a teenager. Jeremy Clarkson, a highly-paid presenter of the BBC's motoring programme Top Gear, made the comment to journalists in Sydney, Australia, when he was talking about the economy.