Gary Gibbon
‘No smoking gun’ in Lockerbie report
Gary Gibbon looks at Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell’s report on the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
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Plot to remove Blair revealed in ‘Project Volvo’ documents
A cache of documents showing Gordon Brown and Tony Blair bitterly haggling over control of No 10 have been leaked. In one letter, Mr Brown labels Mr Blair as “shallow”.
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Christine Lagarde to stand for IMF top job
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde announces her candidature to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn as IMF managing director – but she faces opposition from the developing economies.
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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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FactCheck: for and against AV
FactCheck analyses claims made about AV by David Cameron and Nick Clegg
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British bankers head to Switzerland
There has been a 28 per cent increase in the number of British bankers and financial services workers migrating to Switzerland, writes Business Producer Ben King.
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Gary Gibbon
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Labour Government aided Lockerbie bomber’s release
New documents published today show that the previous Labour government did “all it could” to help Libya secure the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
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Police under pressure to reopen phone hacking case
Scotland Yard faces pressure to launch a fresh investigation into the phone hacking scandal, as it emerges that Gordon Brown asked police to look into whether he was a victim while he was Chancellor.
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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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Coalition v Labour: fiscal fables?
FactCheck analyses Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson’s claim that Labour “paid down debt” and controlled borrowing.
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Jon Snow
David Cameron's radical Euro nuke plan?
For the last years of Labour’s time in power, bilateral summits between France and Britain became a commonplace. At the last one between Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French offered a deal to share aspects of their nuclear deterrent – submarine patrols that would reduce the need to have so many Trident Subs, and…
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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
Blair book: the aftermath
How will Gordon Brown retaliate? And when? I understand he has been talking to friends today telling them not to retaliate right now. Gary Gibbon blogs.
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Jon Snow
Blair bares all in memoirs
No apology for Iraq – but former prime minister Tony Blair comes close to one on, strangely, fox-hunting in his memoirs published today, writes Jon Snow.
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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.
