BROWN'S HINT ON END OF pounds.BRITAIN could vote soon on scrapping the pound, Chancellor Gordon Brown hinted yesterday. A referendum on joining the European single currency could be scheduled for early in the next Parliament, he said. The Government had not changed its policy that there were "advantages in principle in being in a single currency". He added: "But we felt the decision should be based on applying the economic tests we set down and then making a considered judgment. "And we felt that the realistic time to make that would almost certainly be at the beginning of the next Parliament - and it would be subject to a decision of the British people See :
British Overseas Territories ." Mr Brown's remarks on BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. 1's On the Record came amid claims that Ministers were drawing up secret plans to join the Euro before the next election. It was claimed Downing Street Downing Street, Westminster, London, England. On the street are the British Foreign Office and, at No. 10, the residence of the first lord of the Treasury, who is usually (although not necessarily) the prime minister of Great Britain. press secretary Alastair Campbell Alastair John Campbell (born May 25, 1957) was the Director of Communications and Strategy for the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2003, though his work with Tony Blair began in 1994. had told MPs that PM Tony Blair Noun 1. Tony Blair - British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Blair wanted to join "as soon as possible". But Mr Campbell said: "The idea that I have given a signal of a change in policy to anyone is total fantasy." |
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