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Full name: George Parker
Area of interest: Europe’s future, enlargement, political and economic issues
Journals/Organisation: Financial Times
Email: george.parker@ft.com
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Website: http://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/georgeparker
Blog: Brussels briefing - contributor
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Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/georgewparker
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Career: Covered Westminster politics between 1990/1999 - for the Western Morning News then the FT (news editor)
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Remit/Info: Europe’s future, enlargement, political and economic issues
Section: FT.Com's Brussels briefing, insiders’ guide to what’s happening in Brussels; and Brussels blog and previous contributor to Westminster blog
Role: Political editor
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Email: george.parker@ft.com
Website: http://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/georgeparker
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- Man in the News: Ed Balls - George Parker on the rise of the shadow chancellor - 22nd January 2011
- A fiscal focus - UK politics: Tuesday’s pre-Budget report looks likely to define the terms of next year’s general election – in particular the divide between the main parties on how best to reduce the national debt - 8th December 2009
- His finest moment’ - The financial crisis: A year since America adopted the rescue plan first activated by Gordon Brown, his role is disputed by some but hailed by others - 15th October 2009
- Britain faces Tory cuts vs Labour, erm, cuts - If he is elected, David Cameron will need to find cuts equivalent to scrapping all spending on the police, foreign office, transport and six more departments – just to match Labour’s secret plans - 19th September 2009
- Choice cuts - With the dire state of Britain’s finances set to define next year’s general election, government and opposition are competing to portray themselves as the better axe-wielder - 14th September 2009
- Casting around - Gordon Brown’s launch of a policy document both thin on original ideas and devoid of new money shows he is struggling to adjust to the end of a political and economic era - 6th July 2009
- Leading man keeps low profile - Barely a year before an election must be held, Britain’s main economic choices are being framed by two pairs of men who each have much in common – but for both, tensions between leader and finance chief are being magnified by the crisis - 23rd April 2009 (with Jean Eaglesham)
- The Seventies spectre - Barely a year before he must call an election, Brown is facing a power struggle within his party as well as a Tory ascendancy that could set it back a generation - 21st March 2009 (with Jim Pickard)
- From bounce to bust - Britain: Gordon Brown initially drew strength from his handling of the financial crisis, but now finds himself struggling to defy political gravity as the economic news grows ever grimmer - 31st January 2009
- Back to the workers’ banner: Labour is again beholden to the unions for cash - 18th July 2008 (with Andrew Taylor)
- Centre prize: why UK political parties look more and more the same - 4th March 2008 (with Jim Pickard)
- Mess, prime minister: From the shadows of his bunker emerges a battered Brown - 5th February 2008 (with Alex Barker)
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