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Tougher times ahead for Britain's Brown

AFP, London
Embattled British premier Gordon Brown won praise yesterday for a key speech to his Labour Party, but the positive headlines were quickly clouded by the surprise resignation ofa top minister
Brown's make-or-break address to Labour's annual conference in Manchester, northwest England, Tuesday bought him time as he battles a rebellion among lawmakers worried they face defeat at the next general election, experts said
But just hours after the speech, it emerged that Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly will leave the government at the next Cabinet reshuffle, which reports suggest could come as early as next week.
The news swifdy reignited questions about Brown's leadership which have been festering for months and came to a head earlier this month when four lawmakers left their junior government jobs in protest.
In total, a dozen Labour members of parliament have called for a leadership contest. Kelly and Brown insisted she was quitting to spend more time with her young family - the 40-year-old has four children aged between five and 11.
She faced the tricky task of addressing the conference a few hours after her looming resignation was confirmed.
Her speech was applauded warmly by Brown, who listened to
her from the stage, and she got a standingovation from delegates.
Earlier, she had denied the move was linked to the rebellion and hailed Brown as "a towering figure in the Labour Party’.
The premier, who has two sons aged four and two, said he understood her decision "as a lather myself*.
Some reports suggested that Kelly had quit her job before being dropped from the Cabinet by Brown in the reshuffle, although Brown said they had discussed the move as early as May.
The news switched attention from Brown's unusually personal keynote conference speech Tuesday in which he argued that he was a serious politician for serious times, a reference to the global economic turmoil.
"Mr Brown has won important breathing space. Howlong it will last no one knows.” the Times newspaper said in an editorial, while the Daily Mail tabloid said the "defiant' speech would silence his critics.
Others, though, criticised the lack of a policy vision -- ihe Financial Times said: "He appears to be offering himself as the best available manager in the circumstances. These circumstances will win him some time--for now.’
Brown faces a series of fresh challenges in weeks and months to come, starting when lawmakers return to parliament after their summer break on October 6.