Former PM Gordon Brown, the second commissioner replied, had "without any proper consultation renounced the ability of Downing Street to have any influence" over appointments.
Former Labour PM Gordon Brown hired an ex-BBC producer to help ensure he wasn't photographed in a bad light, but it's not always that simple and press photographers are by nature a creative bunch.
Even though ex-UK PM Gordon Brown (Labor) first pushed for an FTT in the EU and G-20 a few years back, a new Tory-PM Cameron-led UK is dead set against FTT and bashing banks and traders.
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But a Policy Exchange poll suggested that people in the north hold Margaret Thatcher in higher esteem as a PM than Gordon Brown.
After doubts began to grow within the Parliamentary Labour Party about Mr Brown as PM, Mr Miliband's supporters again urged him to mount a coup in 2008 - although he eventually made clear that he would not.
Crucially for the PM, Lord Mandelson then declared that Mr Brown had the support of his colleagues.
Sir George responded that the relationship between David Cameron and Nick Clegg was "stronger" than that between former Labour PM Tony Blair and the-then chancellor Gordon Brown, "when they were both actually in the same party".
Tony Blair rather wanted to take us in but his Chancellor, Gordon Brown (who went on to become an entirely disastrous PM) did manage to make one hugely important and entirely decent intervention.
But, with Brown out greeting Zuma, we won't see the candidates for PM locking horns today.
He told the BBC Mr Brown would be "frustrated" at another distraction from his job as PM, of guiding Britain through difficult times.
For the Conservatives, shadow foreign secretary William Hague said it was "astonishing" Mr Brown had taken so long to comment on the matter and that the PM was not prepared to address the question of whether Megrahi's release was justified.
But, in response to Mr Brown's Commons statement on 2 November, opposition leader David Cameron told the PM that the British people would not accept Tony Blair's installation as president of the European Council, a position that will be created if the treaty is ratified.
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