On the day Gordon Brown appears to have headed off a leadership challenge, Faisal Islam predicts that a batch of good economic statistics could mean a 25 March general electioni
Jon Snow
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?
Gary Gibbon
Brown leadership challenge: would Geoff Hoon really fire off just one shot without choreographing a second one, blogs Gary Gibbon.
Gary Gibbon
Phones ran hot between backbench MPs, junior ministers and at least two Cabinet members, it is claimed, over the Christmas break about how to bring the PM down.
Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown strikes out against the Tories; my money is still on a May 6 2010 general election.
Gary Gibbon
Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon explains how the major political parties came to an agreement over televised debates involving their leaders.
Jon Snow
Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy put aside old rivalries to set out a joint vision for a stronger economic future, blogs Jon Snow for Channel 4 News.
Gary Gibbon
The suited Whitehall types listening to the PM have been treated to a very political speech. He said a belief in the power of government as a “force for good” was in his DNA but not present in his opponents’ DNA.
Gary Gibbon
So more than one family has had an extended delay before receiving a letter of condolence from the prime minister and he is in for another round of attacks on this. We should get more details on this soon. Interestingly, when I was talking around yesterday to Brown aides and Labour MPs about the PM’s…
So, come the small hours this side of the Atlantic, President Obama will address the American nation and confirm his intention to more fully pursue The Bush Doctrine which began in Iraq, through Afghanistan. Bush surged into Baghdad; Obama will surge into Kabul. Meanwhile here Gordon Brown has pre-surged, carefully timing his 500 reinforcements yesterday,…
Gary Gibbon
The Spanish Prime Minister last week asked Gordon Brown if HE would be the new President of Europe – a sign of how fluid today’s discussions on who will get the top EU job are.
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon blogs that in his Lord Mayor’s Banquet speech, Gordon Brown will argue that the UK’s involvement in Afghanistan is government by a plan.
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon asks: can Gordon Brown’s announcement today of further immigration controls win over the mainly white “Clocking Off” social group?
Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown’s speech today is an acknowledgment that there is a vacuum in the public debate on immigration and that the government has not been doing enough lately to fill it.
Gary Gibbon
It would be unwise for No.10 to pursue the line that the Sun newspaper was behind the recording of Gordon Brown’s phone call to Jacqui Janes, writes Gary Gibbon.