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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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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Gary Gibbon
The story behind Jacqui Smith’s exit
Friends of Jacqui Smith are insisting her departure is not part of a coordinated Blair Babe walk-out from government to precipitate the downfall of Gordon Brown (Patricia Hewitt and Beverley Hughes announced today that they were standing down as MPs at the next election ). This is much more about the first, longest suffering victim…