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Blow for post-Budget Gordon Brown as newspaper poll says 57 per cent of voters do not want him as prime minister
Poll blow for post-Budget Brown

Britons are less keen on Gordon Brown becoming prime minister following this week’s Budget, according to a new poll. Thirty per cent of people quizzed by Populus for the Times last Wednesday and Thursday said they thought the chancellor would be a good replacement for Tony Blair. In December the proportion was ten per cent… Read more »

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'Stalinist' Brown launches 11th Budget
Brown’s Budget tax shock deflects from bad week

Gordon Brown may have promised not to use Budget 2007 to launch his leadership bid, but Westminster commentators have already called it one of his most political Budgets yet. Entering the Commons following poor opinion polls, inflation at a 15-year-high and a ‘Stalinist’ jibe from a leading civil servant, the chancellor was not unveiling his… Read more »