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More than half of Britons believe Gordon Brown is not fit to be the next prime minister in light of last week's revelations about the impact his 1997 tax reforms had on the pensions system, a new poll has shown.

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The next swing he felt was in 1980, when Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government introduced the National Energy Program, seeking more federal control over the energy industry.

The bank admitted that the controversial Wilders — who was convicted of discrimination against Moroccans at a political rally in 2015 — could become the next prime minister.

He said the countries will have a chance to discuss it next week: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is visiting Trump at his Mar - A-Lago resort in Florida.

«Our base - case assumption is status quo: the Prime Minister and (ruling coalition parties) Barisan Nasional remain in power until the next general election in 2018,» Deutsche Bank said.

YEREVAN, May 2 - The leader of a protest movement that has rocked Armenia on Tuesday called a pause in a campaign of civil disobedience while he seeks assurances that the ruling party will back him to be the next prime minister.

Varadkar still hopes to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump next March in Washington, saying links between the two countries are bigger than any prime minister or president.

Next, I want to address the potential impact of new GHG policies on oil sands projects — in short, I want to show that the Prime Minister's contention that it would be crazy to impose new GHG regulations on the oil sands sector is incorrect.

Part of what makes it impossible to guess what will happen next in Greece is the unpredictability of its prime minister

The goverment said more than a week ago inflation will remain elevated in the next few months, and Prime Minister Lee said in his May Day speech that the No. 1 concern among union leaders is the cost of living.

Heng Swee Keat, Singapore's education minister and former central bank managing director, was named the nation's next Finance minister after a landslide election victory in September by the ruling People's Action Party and prime minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Spanish ten - year yields yesterday went above 6 %, in a sign that the markets are becoming wary of the seeming complacency of the Spanish prime minister; there is now a sense that he might not apply for a programme before next month's regional election — and maybe not at all;

They're not going to do it» — and I wonder whether there's any upside at all to being the prime minister of Canada in the next couple of years.

It is against this background of public moral struggle that the people of Israel prepare to vote on July 23 for their next government, in an election that pits the conservative Likud Party of Menachem Begin and current Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir against the Labor Party headed by two - time loser Shimon Peres.

A ban on plastic straws, drinks stirrers and cotton buds could be in place in England next year after a consultation was announced by Prime Minister Theresa May today (19 April).

Ed Fulton, political trading spokesman for Sporting Index, said: «After yet another enthralling Premier League season in England, timed nicely in the run up to a snap election next month, we thought it would be interesting to identify which manager would generate the most support if they were to run for Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Despite the prime minister's confidence in the Tripartite system, Mr Darling confirmed a new package of reforms will be unveiled next year to help banks that get into difficulty.

Opposition forces were in the ascendant, and the proposed switching of roles with Medvedev — with the sitting president lined up as the next prime minister — divided his political allies.

We conclude that the most effective and democratic way to decide who should be tasked with forming the next government in such situations is a vote in parliament to nominate the new Prime Minister, in the form of a recommendation to the Monarch.

The comments come as Farron sends a letter to the prime minister demanding he accept 3,000 unaccompanied orphans from the Middle East in addition to the 20,000 Syrian refugees the UK is already pledged to take over the next five years.

It was tabled by John Baron, who has led pressure on the prime minister to legislate for a referendum to take place in the next parliament.

«Under the Prime Minister's watch, 3.7 million children in the UK are now living in poverty, a figure set to rise by 600,000 over the next two years, as a result of the Government's continuation of its economic and social policies.

Apparently we could be heard (quite loudly) in the Prime Minister's office next door.

If the next British prime minister can weather the early storm, it's reasonable to assume he or she will be able to do constructive business with the EU in a year or two.

It now seems likely that the verdicts on the six won't be announced until next year — until which time Uhuru Kenyatta, one of those accused of inciting ethnic violence, remains in the post of Deputy Prime Minister.

Both Labour MPs and the Prime Minister had called for the process to be concluded in time for the next general election, due by mid-2010.

There's no great rush, but if obfuscatory noises are coming out of Downing Street at, say, this time next year, the Chairman of the»22 should quietly have a word with the Prime Minister, and tell him that the Committee will begin its own policy development process the following summer, if there's no movement from Number Ten in the meantime.

The prime minister will also attend a special EU council next week on the financial crisis before heading to the global summit to be held in the US on 15th November.

I hope that my hon. Friend will tell the Deputy Prime Minister that in the extra time that he will have next week, now that he has cancelled his trip to South America, he should give serious consideration to getting on with working out who will be on the commission and what will be its scope and remit.

Oh, yes - the man whose next appearance in the Commons could be as prime minister.

There's no point in alarming these centre - right voters by reminding them that in a hung Parliament Sir Menzies would angle for a coalition with the next Labour Prime Minister.

Brussels doesn't have confidence that she can deliver on the promises she makes in Europe or even that she is likely to still be prime minister by the next time they have a meeting.

But the big question thrown up by the election is: who will be the next Conservative Prime Minister now that Theresa May's shot herself right in the kitten heel?

However, when the Romanian prime minister recently threatened the Hungarian minority in Romania, saying that whoever tries to display their national flag, will be hanged next to those flags, there has been surprisingly little reaction in the EU in this matter, and many major news organizations didn't even report the story.

The former work and pensions secretary, whose resignation from the cabinet and criticism of Gordon Brown last June nearly toppled the prime minister, has told his constituency Labour party in Stalybridge and Hyde he will be standing down as their MP but that his decision is personal and, after 20 years in the Westminster political system, no reflection on Labour's chances at the next general election.

Tories say the atmosphere in the parliamentary party has changed over the past week after a consensus had been formed around Easter that the prime minister was secure at least until next year's European parliamentary elections, which Ukip is expected to win.

He also claimed Mr Miliband could be the next Prime Minister and «transform Britain in a way that we haven't seen for a very long time».

«Next week the country needs an «emergency Budget» for our public services that are in crisis, not a budget desperately designed to save the jobs of a weak Prime Minister and her embattled Chancellor.

The Prime Minister said: «I am determined to win this seat back at the next general election because anything other than a Conservative government will put our recovery at risk and Ed Miliband in Downing Street.»

On the basis of a close relationship with the Prime Minister, Paddy Ashdown predicts there will be Lib Dem MPs in government after the next general election.

He has suggested it could be placed in the garden of Downing Street if he is elected as the next prime minister — although the people in charge of granting planning permission in Westminster may have other ideas.

Internal surveys were reported to have shown that the joint list would win more than 50 seats in the upcoming elections, a total unheard of by a single party in decades, and one that if realized would virtually guarantee Netanyahu continuing as prime minister in the next parliament, no matter which candidates ran and no matter which alliances were formed against him.

Whatever the Fixed - Term Parliaments Act may say, the next Tory prime minister may decide to call an early general election, possibly later this year, when Labour will still be in chaos.

The deputy prime minister said he would invite UK Home Secretary Theresa May to attend the international conference on deradicalisation scheduled to be held in Malaysia on Jan 25 and 26 next year.

Rather, the prime minister is looking to Nigel Slater for inspiration in the kitchen next week.

The next Prime Minister will come from within the Conservative MP block and they are nominated by MPs from within the Tory Party, ratified by the Tory executive, and in the case of more than one nominated candidate, elected by the Tory Membership.

A YouGov poll yesterday found ten per cent of voters would be more likely to vote Labour in the next general election if Mr Hain were deputy prime minister.

«Sitting mute next to David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions every week was a sort of terrible encapsulation of what our critics said about us, that we were somehow just sort of passengers in the government when in fact we were active architects rather than observers of the government.

«Now, after his first all - blue Conservative Budget, he is undisputably the front runner in the race for the Tory leadership and favourite to become Britain's next Prime Minister.

Home secretary John Reid is expected to outline a major overhaul of the criminal justice system next month, but today the prime minister outlined the key areas in which he believed reform was most urgent.