Basra withdrawal not a defeat, says Brown
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PM says withdrawal of British troops from Basra Palace was 'pre-planned and organised move'.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Sunday he was not secretly negotiating the future of troubled bank Northern Rock with Virgin boss Richard Branson, who was travelling with him in India.
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Gordon Brown backs report stressing need to break the 'vicious cycle' of poverty, instability and conflict.
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Gordon Brown denied he was plotting to overthrow Prime Minister Tony Blair as he sought to calm a week of turmoil over the leadership.
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British troops today handed over responsibilty for security in the southern Iraqi province of Basra, a major landmark in the scaling-back of the foreign military presence nearly five years on from the U.S.-led invasion. "As you step up, we step back," British commander, Maj. Gen. Graham Binns, told Iraqi leaders.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown says "now" is not the time for an election - but fails to fully rule out a snap election.
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The British commander who moved Black Watch troops from their Basra base to Camp Dogwood defends his decision.
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Chancellor Gordon Brown denies Scotland will lose out through his drive to appeal to Middle England.
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UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said the nation should rally behind Prime Minister Tony Blair and the way the government is handling talks with a terrorist group in Iraq that&#39;s holding Kenneth Bigley hostage.
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The handover of the oil-rich province of Basra by the British military to Iraqi forces will not diminish Britain's role in Iraq, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Monday.
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AMMAN, Jordan -- A day before his meeting here with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki , President Bush said yesterday that despite the lively debate in Congress and among the US American public about the way forward in Iraq, he will not withdraw US troops until Iraq is stable enough to protect itself.
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BASRA, Iraq  - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid an unannounced visit on Sunday to the troops whose mission he is winding down in Shi'ite southern Iraq.
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Brown refuses to rule out election as MPs in key marginals give green light.
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QAEDA in Britain has threatened suicide attacks on Prime Minister Gordon Brown and predecessor Tony Blair unless London withdraws its troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, The message was posted in English to an ... via The Courier Mail
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BASRA, Iraq - British troops were quitting the southern Iraqi city of Basra last night in another step toward handing over the province to Iraqi control and preparing for an eventual withdrawal of British forces from Iraq.
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Union leaders say they avoided a showdown with Gordon Brown because they did not want to ruin his first conference as leader.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown rejected on Tuesday a call to pull British troops out of Iraq, insisting they still had an important job to do battling militias and providing security.