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He has already appointed former Labour Culture Secretary James Purnell as director of strategy and digital.
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Last summer they chose not to follow James Purnell out of the door and the threat passed.
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Former culture secretary James Purnell is also to return to the BBC, as director, Strategy and Digital.
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Licensing Minister James Purnell had "tried to pull the wool over everyone's eyes" by not acknowledging the forum's concerns, she said.
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His predecessor but one, James Purnell, was its head of corporate planning.
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In the interview he acknowledged that a string of ministerial resignations, including that of the former Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell, caused "a serious ruction".
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The second main sort of political comment has been interpretation: explaining what it meant when, say, Lord Mandelson returned to government or James Purnell resigned from it.
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Cabinet minister James Purnell resigned, strongly criticising Gordon Brown's leadership.
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James Purnell's surprise resignation as work and pensions secretary on Thursday came with a call for Mr Brown to "stand aside to give our party a fighting chance of winning".
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If the government had merely increased tax allowances and benefits in line with inflation since 1997, said the work and pensions secretary, James Purnell, there would be 1.7m more poor children in Britain today.
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