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I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

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Gordon Brown
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 20
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What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.
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The IIFA Weekend has my unprecedented support. The relationship between India and the UK is long standing and one we would like to keep developing forever.
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Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
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Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.
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In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.
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Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.
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We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.
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Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.
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I hope the Spice Girls will come back, although it may be beyond even Bob Geldof to get that to happen.
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No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.
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I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.
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The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.
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The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered
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America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.
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The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.
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Britain and Pakistan will jointly fight the menace of terrorism .. Both the countries are facing a common threat of terrorism and we know that Pakistan is even more committed to fighting this menace
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Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no longer be postponed. We must create a new international financial architecture for the global age.
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