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Brown told: Speak up.. or quit!

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Published Date:
15 May 2008
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown has been publicly challenged on his home ground for the first time.
In a hard-hitting attack on the Kirkcaldy MP's recent performance on both national and local matters, a leading SNP councillor challenged him to ''debate the issues'' ... or quit Number 10.

Douglas Chapman spoke out after a tough week for Mr Brown which saw:


  • Labour crash at the English county council elections


  • The party's popularity log an all-time low in an opinion poll


  • Confusion over Scottish Labour's bid for an independence referendum


  • Outcry over plans to abolish the 10p tax rate



Councillor Chapman, deputy leader of Fife Council's SNP Group, called on Mr Brown to "either return to his constituency to debate what's going on within his Labour government or quit".

But his intervention was angrily attacked by a spokesman for Mr Brown who branded the Nationalist councillor ''a rude little man.''

Full story in this week's Fife Free Press



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  • Last Updated: 15 May 2008 10:17 AM
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