LONDON — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced more changes to his government Sunday, completing a shake-up intended to strengthen the government as it faces the global economic crisis. The government shuffle has also been seen partly as an attempt by Brown to bring his critics into a unity government. The country’s first Muslim government minister, Shahid Malik, was named one of several ministers in the justice department in a shuffle of lower government ranks. He previously had been an international development minister. In other appointments, Vernon Coaker became police minister, and Phil Woolas was named immigration minister. Earlier this year Woolas angered some Britons of Pakistani descent by suggesting marriage between cousins in the Pakistani community was leading to high rates of...
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