Gary Gibbon
Just watching Gordon Brown at the Liaison Committee and they’re going to get round to constitutional reform a bit later, before they do some questions on “Being Prime Minister!” Anyway, the Prime Minister was a little earlier giving a speech on constitutional reform, fresh from the Cabinet giving the go-ahead to an amendment to the…
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon comes across some differences between Lord Goldsmith and Gordon Brown’s recollection of a cabinet meeting on the legality of the war in Iraq.
Yemen has sent its prime minister, two deputy prime ministers and its foreign minister to today’s London meeting to discuss the situation in Yemen, blogs Jonathan Rugman.
Gary Gibbon
Who comes away with most egg on their face after a figure like that? The economy may have grown 0.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2009. But does it make Gordon Brown look a bit premature in announcing the country’s out of recession? This figure is preliminary and could be revised downwards. Or…
Gary Gibbon
Talks between the Prime Ministers and the main party leaders are due to start around now in Stormont.
Gary Gibbon
A Channel 4 News/ICM poll shows little sign voters will credit Gordon Brown with getting the country out of recession when it comes to the general election.
Gary Gibbon
Sir John Chilcot’s decision to take evidence from the prime minister not many weeks shy of a general election reminds you that it’s not just the politicians who feel on trial here, writes Gary Gibbon.
The Iraq inquiry blogger looks back on Sir John Chilcot’s previous statements about when Gordon Brown would give evidence to the Iraq inqury.
In his explosive evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, former security and intelligence coordinator Sir David Omand fingers MI6 for failing to correctly interpret intelligence over weapons of mass destruction.
Gary Gibbon
It’s a well-attended PLP meeting – MPs are struggling to get into the committee room. Gordon Brown is up first. His trio of election strategists – Peter Mandelson, Douglas Alexander and Harriet Harman – then speak. Charles Clarke has gone in to take his medicine.
Gary Gibbon
(UPDATED: now with video of Ed Balls interview.) To the QE2 centre in Westminster where Gordon Brown sat on a platform flanked by Ed Balls and Peter Mandelson, a lecturn either side of them. I thought the PM might be about to chair a debate between the two consorts, but alas not. It was an international education conference (which…
Jon Snow
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.
Gary Gibbon
The Prime Minister was all smiles with Peter Mandelson at the London launch of the economic growth strategy, this afternoon. But yesterday, after a phone call around 8am, the two didn’t speak again. All day. Wasn’t Peter Mandelson meant to be the key strategist, right-hand man, Deputy Prime Minister in all but name? Yesterday morning’s…
Gary Gibbon
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.
Gary Gibbon
Foreign Secretary David Miliband has decided to give a slightly more explicit message of support than the mealy-mouthed evasion he managed after seven hours thought, last night.