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...Brown's Big Ideas Thank you for your considered piece on Prime Minister Gordon Brown [April 28]. Your approach was a welcome change from the concerted personal attacks on him in the British press. I have never voted Labour in a national election, but I think I might do so next time around, and that's down to Brown and his commitment to do the right thing rather than what seems to be the most popular thing. Alison Twaddle, East Lothian, Scotland...
...names and deliberately nonsensical manifestos have taken part in many of the country's parliamentary, municipal and mayoral polls, and sometimes even won them. In the 2002 mayoral race in the port city of Hartlepool, for instance, a man dressed as a monkey and promising free bananas decisively beat Labour and Britain's two other leading parties, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. So it's not surprising that Ken Livingstone, the Labour politician aiming to win a third consecutive four-year term as London's mayor, hopes humor will help him to defeat his main challenger, Conservative Boris Johnson...
...plan to deploy eco-friendly versions of London's iconic double-decker buses. Such fumbles are a gift to Livingstone, whose success or failure will resonate loudly in Westminster. Voters throughout England and Wales are casting ballots in municipal elections on the same day, and Gordon Brown's battered Labour government is expected to perform miserably, losing perhaps as many as 200 local council seats. A Labour defeat in London's mayoral election would raise loud chortles in Conservative ranks and strengthen his critics in the media and his own party...
...Opposition politicians in the British House of Commons on Monday used news of the trips to highlight again what has become a recurring attack against the incumbent Labour government: that it has failed to provide adequate equipment and support to serving soldiers...
...growing feel for globalization shifted his focus further afield. But he adheres to one core priority that predates not only his time in government but his years as a brilliant academic - Brown entered university when he was just 16 and took a first-class degree - and as a rising Labour star...