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Tue 07 Jul 2008Second party MP calls on Brown to stand down
BRITAIN:A SECOND Labour MP called on beleaguered British prime minister Gordon Brown to quit yesterday as the party's deputy leader, Harriet Harman, insisted he would not bow to widely reported plots to force him from office.
But as home secretary Jacqui Smith headed the ministerial cast demanding that Labour MPs "stop talking among themselves" and "back the leader", the impression grew of public declarations of loyalty and private plotting among senior ministers and MPs in turmoil as to whether to force a leadership challenge in or around Labour's party conference in September.
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