Jon Snow
Torture: questions still hanging in the wind
The question as to what extent the UK security services were aware of or were involved in any way in torture remains very live this week, blogs Jon Snow.
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Jon Snow
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Brown's inquiry appearance overshadows Treasury evidence
Any real chance of today’s DfID and Treasury witnesses getting onto the news bulletins was pretty much scuppered by the news Gordon Brown would appear before the inquiry.
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Gary Gibbon
Hoon gives new twist to Iraq war timetable
Former Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon told the Iraq inquiry a paper was prepared for Tony Blair to take to the April 2002 Crawford summit listing the three military options for the UK if it joined in with the US attack on Iraq.
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Iraq inquiry: questions for Geoff Hoon
The Iraq inquiry blogger looks ahead to the kind of questions the panel is expected to ask former defence secretary Geoff Hoon later today.
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Jon Snow
Shall we tell the president?
Last week’s failed plot to oust Gordon Brown as Labour leader may be the consequence of the fact that Cabinet control over the prime minister has all but collapsed, blogs Jon Snow.
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Gary Gibbon
Meetings add intrigue to the Labour plot
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon reveals what happened in the hours between the publication of Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt’s letter and senior Cabinet figures making their first statements.
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Jon Snow
A Christmas cracker of a plot
Is the challenge to Gordon Brown’s leaderhip of the Labour party by Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt merely the shortest suicide note in history, asks Jon Snow?
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Gary Gibbon
Brown challenge: awaiting Darling, Harman and Straw
Brown leadership challenge: would Geoff Hoon really fire off just one shot without choreographing a second one, blogs Gary Gibbon.
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Gary Gibbon
Brown coup faces fizzling without new names
(UPDATE: Now includes video of Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon interviews.) This plot desperately needs new names and we wait to see them. Geoff Hoon, as a former chief whip, knows his way round things, knows very well that previous plots fizzled out and lacked organisation. He would not lightly put his name at the…
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Jon Snow
A day of miscalculation by the political classes
How convenient, the Whitsun break. Have you ever wondered how many weeks the political classes absent themselves in a year? But the problem today is not absenteeism. In some cases it’s a lack of it.