Cabinet Meets in Olympic Park; Brown Renews Call for U.K. Soccer Team

9/5/2009

(ATR) Instead of holding it as usual in No. 10 Downing Street, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown hosted a full meeting of his Cabinet in a Portakabin in London's Olympic Park Thursday.

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