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Thursday 04 June 2009 8:00 pm  |  Updated:  Friday 31 May 2019 1:02 pm

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SIR Alan Sugar was yesterday called to Downing Street and asked to be Gordon Brown’s  “enterprise tsar”. It is not thought that Sugar will become a minister, but No. 10 is hoping that the appointment of a household name like Sugar will add some stardust to Brown’s increasingly problematic reshuffle.

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