The British Labour Party politician Tony Benn (born 1925) held several cabinet positions between 1966 and 1979. He was a leading socialist and advocate of "participatory democracy." He gained perhaps ...
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London (dpa) - British troop levels in southern Iraq will be more
than halved and fall to 2,500 by next spring, depending on conditions
on the ground, Prime Minister Gordon ...
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On May 5, 2006,
Margaret
Beckett
became the first woman to hold the post of
U.K.
foreign secretary and thereby defied repeated predictions over the years that
Prime Minister
Tony
Blair
would ...
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