London, September 13: Gordon Brown will declare this week that Britain is emerging from recession and that the economy is on the “road towards recovery”.
The Prime Minister will deliver this extraordinarily upbeat assessment in a speech to union leaders exactly one year on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the catalyst for the worldwide financial crisis.
It comes as Mr Brown faces a fresh challenge to his authority from the leader of Britain’s biggest union, who today warns the premier that he must “move aside” Peter Mandelson and David Miliband or face “slaughter” at the general election.
–Agencies