UK’s Brown dismisses decision of Sun tabloid to switch allegiance to Conservative Party

September 30th, 2009 LONDON - Britains most popular tabloid newspaper Wednesday said it was backing the opposition Conservative Party at the next election, but Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted that it was the "people that decide elections. The newspaper, part of the News Corporation media empire owned by Rupert Murdoch, declared on its front page: "Labour's Lost It".

September 30th, 2009 The Sun newspaper backs Britain's ConservativesLONDON — The Sun newspaper has backed Britain's opposition Conservative Party for the first time since the ruling Labour Party took power more than a decade ago. The influential tabloid's political editor says it is now endorsing the Tories because Labour has "failed the country" and let his readers down.

September 29th, 2009 LONDON - The flagging popularity of Britain's ruling Labour Party was highlighted Tuesday by an opinion poll that showed that the party led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown had slipped to third place in the estimation of the voter. The Ipsos Mori poll, published on the day Brown is due to give a keynote speech to the annual Labour Party conference, put Labour at 24 percent, the opposition Liberal Democrats at 25 percent and the bigger opposition Conservative Party at 36 percent.

July 26th, 2009 LONDON - A senior Labour MP has said that Prime Minister Gordon brown needs to seriously consider his position over the summer amid fresh rumblings about his leadership. Barry Sheerman, the chairman of the Commons education committee, said Brown needed to rethink his strategy after the party's disastrous performance in the Norwich North by-election.

June 8th, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing a new challenge to his leadership, as his party came third behind the Conservatives and the UKIP in the European elections. The British National Party won its first two European seats.

June 5th, 2009 Brown: No plans of stepping down as British PMLONDON — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is defying calls from some in his own party to resign, saying he will not walk away from his responsibilities. Brown reshuffled his Cabinet Friday in hopes of hanging on to his job in the midst of a scandal over lawmakers' expenses, a string of top-level resignations and catastrophic results expected in local elections.

June 5th, 2009 LONDON - A fourth British minister resigned in four days Friday, spurring Prime Minister Gordon Brown to begin reshuffling his cabinet in the middle of a deepening political crisis. Pressure mounted on Brown to quit after John Hutton resigned as defence secretary, following the shock resignation of James Purnell as work and pension secretary late Thursday night.

June 5th, 2009 LONDON - A combative British Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared he "will not walk away" as he reshuffled his cabinet on a stormy Friday amid a string of ministerial resignations. The reshuffle came as the ruling Labour Party took a pounding in elections to local municipal authorities, but Brown rejected resignation calls by opposition parties and a growing number of Labour rebels.

May 18th, 2009 LONDON - Britain's Conservatives Monday called for an immediate general election to end the 'paralysis' of the government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Conservative leader David Cameron said a nationwide poll should be held 'as soon as possible after the European elections' June 4.

May 14th, 2009 LONDON - A former British minister was suspended from the parliamentary Labour party Thursday for claiming 16,000 pounds for a home loan that he had already paid off. Elliot Morley's suspension was announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown on a day several MPs said they were paying back money that they had claimed in expenses that have been seen as dubious.

April 4th, 2009 LONDON - Barbadian singer-model Rihanna seems to be moving on with life after being allegedly attacked by Chris Brown, as she was reportedly seen raising a toast to her split from Brown and her newfound singleton. Sources have revealed that the 'Umbrella' hitmaker was at an eatery in New York with her friends when she publicly toasted her split.

February 10th, 2009 LONDON - Superstar singer Rihanna cancelled her 21st birthday party and is hiding after her boyfriend singer Chris Brown attacked her. According to thesun.co.uk, Rihanna may need plastic surgery.

January 28th, 2009 LONDON - In a further blow to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the global economic downturn will hit Britain harder than any other rich country. The Washington-based financial institution forecast Wednesday that the British economy would shrink by 2.8 percent this year, twice as much as previously predicted.

January 26th, 2009 LONDON - Support for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is dipping amid a loss of voter-confidence in his ability to turn the economy around and reports of a resurgent opposition Tory party, according to two opinion polls published Tuesday. A Guardian-ICM poll, carried out after a second round of multi-billion pound bank bail-outs last week, showed only 31 percent of voters think that Brown's high-profile battle to turn around the economy will work.

January 4th, 2009 LONDON - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been criticised after interviewing the British prime minister in his home rather than at the television channel's studios. Instead of travelling to the studios, Brown allowed the BBC to hold a 'fireside chat' at his central London home for the flagship Sunday morning programme, the Andrew Marr Show.