Brown pledges support as crisis eases

BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown last night pledged his government was doing everything in its power to maintain economic stability amid signs that the immediate crisis over the troubled Northern Rock bank appeared to be easing.

The queues of worried investors waiting to withdraw their savings were sharply down on previous days after Chancellor Alistair Darling’s dramatic Monday night announcement that the Government would guarantee their deposits.

In his first public comments since the crisis broke last week, Mr Brown said: “Everything that can be done will be done and is being done to maintain the stability of the economy.