Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown and the last minute job offer
Gordon Brown leaves parliament only weeks after his successor Ed Miliband asked him to throw himself back into frontline politics.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gordon Brown’s vision for a Scottish utopia
His impassioned speeches towards the end of Scotland’s referendum campaigning have been credited with securing a victory for no now Gordon Brown has set out his vision for Scotland. So what is it?
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Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown tries to bump David Cameron off the news
If it’s a no vote on Thursday, Gordon Brown will feel he played a central role in helping to save the union. Quite a few others will agree.
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Gary Gibbon
No campaign worry Gordon Brown’s gone rogue
Gordon Brown has attacked almost every single seminal moment in the Better Together campaign so far as ill-judged, counter productive and capable of contributing to a yes victory.
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Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown, the union, and spirals of silence
Gordon Brown had been intending to give the all-party Better Together campaign a wide berth. But then the narrowing of the polls happened. And in Scotland the former PM still has a lot of weight.
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Gordon Brown: ‘Mandela’s secret was his courage’
The former prime minister looks back over his 20-year friendship with the late Nelson Mandela.
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Gordon Brown on Malala: ‘No-one will believe Taliban’
“Nobody’s going to believe a word the Taliban say until they stop bombing the schools and killing the teachers,” Gordon Brown tells Channel 4 News in reaction to a Taliban letter to Malala Yousafzai.
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Gordon Brown attacks Sun at Leveson inquiry
Gordon Brown criticises the Sun for revealing his son’s cystic fibrosis, while Chancellor George Osborne denies there was a conspiracy between the Conservatives and Rupert Murdoch.
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Faisal Islam
Remember Gordon Brown’s football deal for Murdoch?
As David Cameron flies back early from his Africa trip, and the Murdochs are put on parliamentary trial, we are hearing a lot from the Opposition about the close links between Conservatives and the News Corp empire. If Labour party figures really are serious about reining in the power of Rupert Murdoch, they would do…
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Gordon Brown in News International hacking claims
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been told by police that his bank accounts and his son’s medical records may have been illegally accessed by News International newspapers.
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Christine Lagarde or Gordon Brown for the IMF top job?
France’s Christine Lagarde is favourite, while a trailing Gordon Brown has failed to secure David Cameron’s backing. We look at the main candidates to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the IMF.
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Gordon Brown: be careful what you wish for
As Gordon Brown prepares to publish his book amid a barrage of bad publicity, Gaby Hinsliff asks how different events might have been if the former prime minister hadn’t taken the top job.
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Gary Gibbon
Wikileaks: Gordon Brown pleaded the case for Gary McKinnon
The Wikileaks documents contain interesting stuff on Gary McKinnon as well as differing opinions between the UK government and the military over the deployment of troops in Afghanistan, Gary Gibbon writes.
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Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown asks for a role at Labour leadership unveiling
Gary Gibbon blogs on how Gordon Brown has asked to say some words to the Labour party conference in Manchester before the result of his successor is announced.
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Gary Gibbon
Tony Blair’s memoirs on Gordon Brown’s premiership
Gary Gibbon blogs on how Tony Blair is expected to criticise Gordon Brown in the final chapter of his book, ‘Tony Blair – A Journey’ which is published tomorrow.
