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A crop of backbiting memoirs shows that New Labour's once famed discipline has well and truly collapsed "Annoying, bewildering, prickly ... could go off like a bloody volcano." Well, it's over three years since I left the Labour NEC bear pit to move to the US, and now I'm back just in time to...
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Brown to reveal housing market plan
By Adrian Croft LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown will set out plans on Wednesday to shore up the creaking housing market as part of a drive to reverse a slide in support for his government. Reforms of the banking regulation system, whose failings were exposed last year when Britain...
Better out now than for a generation
Today is the first day of the rest of Gordon Brown's life. That, at least, is the scenario the folks in Downing Street are sketching out. For sheer creativity and optimism of the human spirit, the Brown team deserve credit for the way they're trying to buck themselves up. With that out of the...
Jonathan Freedland: Better Labour lose power in 2010 than end up exiled for a generation
Downing Street optimists still think they can win, but a spell in opposition could perhaps let the party redefine its purpose Today is the first day of the rest of Gordon Brown's life. For sheer creativity and optimism of the human spirit, the Brown team deserve credit for the way they're trying...
UK's Brown to reveal plans to help housing market
By Adrian Croft LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown will set out plans on Wednesday to shore up Britain's creaking housing market as part of a drive to reverse a slide in support for his government. Reforms of the banking regulation system, whose failings were exposed last year...
Michael Brown: It's far worse for Brown than it was for Major
The Labour peer Lord Desai recently compared Gordon Brown's style to "porridge – maybe haggis". The question is whether the Prime Minister is now toast. With Frank Field still – a decade on – "thinking the unthinkable", albeit now with apologies, the mutterings are turning to the once unthinkable...
Verdicts and predictions for Gordon Brown
A "friend of Brown" in the Times: “If we lose Crewe then I think a few of us will be telling him to think about quitting,” a former minister and friend of Mr Brown told The Times. An insider to The Times on why the mini budget now: “The political dynamic changed after the locals,” said one figure...
A battered Gordon Brown faces more blows
A battered Gordon Brown faces more blows : Gordon Brown is still six weeks away from his first anniversary as Britain's prime minister, a job he hankered after so keenly during much of the 10 years he served as chancellor of the Exchequer and Tony Blair's No. 2 that the two men ended up barely...
Hits just keep on coming for battered Brown
Gordon Brown is still six weeks away from his first anniversary as Britain's prime minister, a job he hankered after so keenly during much of the 10 years he served as chancellor of the Exchequer and Tony Blair's No. 2 that the two men ended up barely able to speak to each other or agree on key...
Prescott is wrong: Brown behaved badly to Blair
Before I forget, I wanted to pick up a point made by John Prescott in The Sunday Times this weekend. Prescott acted as intermediary between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair and doubtless found it very wearing. I quite understand why at times he wished Blair would simply give in and deliver on his...
Gathering Vultures: The Smell of Death Is Upon Gordon Brown
Former Labour minister Frank Field is a sober and sensible individual, unlikely to be given to flights of fancy. His observations on the character of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, therefore, should be taken seriously. Whilst it was almost certainly Brown who was responsible for stopping Field from...
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