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Brown Lifts Ban On National Flag

by liamssoft | July 6, 2007 at 02:08 am

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The new era of Gordon Brown blast into the news with the main massage being, I am Listening. Few can argue that this is a very welcomed and different approach to that of Tony Blair. Allowing the flag to be flown 365 days a year is an uplifting sparkle.

The union flag is flying over Downing Street after Gordon Brown scrapped a rule saying it could be flown only on certain days of the year.

The prime minister said it will now be up to individual public offices when they fly Britain's national flag.

He said: "When I came into government I realised that you could only fly the flag on 18 days in the year and I thought that was wrong."

He said he also wanted to promote British values of liberty and fairness.

Mr Brown made "Britishness" a key theme in his pitch for the Labour leadership, often appearing against a union flag backdrop.

But he has faced criticism in the past over his calls for a national British day and for praising the American practice of flying the national flag in private gardens.