Jacqui Janes tape pits Gordon Brown against The Sun

The Sun is insisting they are not running Jacqui Janes as part of a campaign and that the recording made of Gordon Brown’s phone call to the bereaved mother was done spontaneously by a friend who was at the Janes’s home.

Mrs Janes hits the loudspeaker button and the friend puts their BlackBerry near enough to pick up sound. The call came at 10pm on Sunday night and there was no Sun minder on the premises.

No 10 will take some convincing.

They think The Sun is in full political war mode and that James Murdoch – who authorised the decision to declare for David Cameron on the edition after Gordon Brown’s leader’s speech at conference – sees The Sun as part of the sinking element of his inheritance and useful primarily as a political weapon to serve his other commercial interests.

Anyway, we now await Gordon Brown’s press conference starting any minute and brought forward so it doesn’t clash with coverage of the returning dead soldiers to Wootton Bassett.

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