ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Britain pressed the G20 on Saturday to come up with a plan to make banks pay for any future bailouts but one idea of imposing a global financial transactions tax was immediately shot down by the United States. Full Article

Over the next couple of weeks Sumeet Desai, Senior Reuters economics correspondent, will be live blogging his travels with the Prime Minister to the United Nations in New York, the G20 summit in Pittsburgh and the Labour Party conference in Brighton. Full Article

What happens if the economy turns around by the end of the year but the polls don't get any better? Some Labour strategists are wondering whether that might be a good time for Gordon Brown to step down, perhaps in January. Full Article | Comments [3]

He loves the Queen and the British people. Truth be told, President Obama was always going to be a hit on his first overseas trip. But Gordon Brown probably could not believe his luck. The prime minister ... Full Article | Comments [14]
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