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Gordon Brown has urged Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf to go ahead with elections next month. The planned January 8th polls have been cast into doubt by yesterday’s assassination of former leader Benazir Bhutto after a political rally in Rawalpindi. But the British prime minister has today spoken to his Pakistani counterpart on the phone and… Read more »
James Callaghan threatened to resign as prime minister rather than give in to a possible police strike, official documents released today have shown. The 1977 Labour government feared that increasingly militant members of the Police Federation might break the law banning industrial action, with the then prime minister Mr Callaghan facing a similar stand-off to… Read more »
