Friday, 3 April 2009

Friday's papers


One topic on the front of the papers this morning.

The fightback starts here says the Telegraph quoting the words of the Prime Minister

"This is the day that the world came together to fight back against the global recession," he said. "Not with words but with a plan for global recovery and reform."


London United says the Times reporting that

the scale of the new $1.1 trillion resources made available to institutions was much larger than expected. There was also a specific and timetabled agreement to take whatever steps were necessary to restore growth.


The Guardian and the Mail share the same headline,Brown's new world order they say.

The Prime Minister

claiming that the grand bargain he had brokered represented "a coming together of the world" which would speed recovery from the worst recession since 1945.
says the Guardian

The Mail asks Will Brown's 'New World Order' pay off? and reports that

Stock markets gave the plan a positive reaction, with the FTSE-100 Index climbing more than 4 per cent to top 4,000 for the first time in five weeks. But critics queried how much of the announcement involved new money and just what it could achieve both across the world and for suffering families and businesses in the UK.


The Sun describes how Gordon Brown

strong-armed America, China, Japan, the EU and nations from across the planet into historic action at a gruelling G20 summit.


The Independent looks to the American president who it says played a key role in brokering the agreement, resolving tensions between China and France on tax havens.

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