Tributes paid to ‘true statesman’ Tony Lloyd at Manchester service Senior Labour figures gather for funeral of one of the longest-serving MPs in recent history The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2024
Starmer and Reeves should listen to Brown’s call for action on child poverty Letters: Susan Treagus thinks Labour’s top team should ask the former chancellor for policy help, Shelagh Young says destitute families deserve more, and Les Bonney advocates reading the poem Timothy Winters The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024
The Guardian view on ending destitution: an essentials guarantee is needed Editorial: The extent of poverty in the UK is shameful and so is the silence surrounding it. Gordon Brown’s challenge to ministers is timely The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024
The frightening thing is not that Tories are paraded as more fiscally competent. It’s that even Labour believes it Abandoning its £28bn green plan betrays a lack of self-belief that has long bedevilled the party, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024
Brianna Ghey’s parents met hate with love, and Sunak chased cheap laughs. That says it all about him and his party The PM’s bad joke revealed his inability to read a room. How on earth will he cope in an actual election campaign, asks Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024
Tables without food, bedrooms without beds. Grinding child poverty in Britain calls for anger – and a plan There are things ministers must do but also actions we can take to help fellow citizens. Both are now essential, says former PM Gordon Brown The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024
Gordon Brown slams ‘obscene’ levels of destitution in the UK Former PM criticises ministers for ‘moral outrage’ of ‘systematically shredding’ social security system The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2024
When the PM and Piers Morgan strike a £1,000 TV bet about desperate human lives, whom do you abhor the most? No wonder Sunak today seeks to extricate himself. None of the world leaders I have interviewed would have behaved this way, says author and broadcaster Gavin Esler The Guardian - UK · Feb 6, 2024
Reform UK leader accuses Tories of ‘stealing’ social housing policy Richard Tice says Conservatives trying to copy party’s plan to put foreign nationals at ‘back of queue’ for social homes The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2024
Tory social housing plan aims to prioritise ‘British homes for British workers’ Exclusive: Proposals to be put forward next month will favour UK citizens, but experts say they are likely to be illegal or unworkable The Guardian - UK · Jan 24, 2024
OPINION - Simon Clarke's call to oust Sunak has nothing on Patricia Hewitt-Geoff Hoon coup If I had to pick my favourite failed coup of the Gordon Brown premiership, it would have to be the Patricia Hewitt-Geoff Hoon plot. It was early January 2010 when the former cabinet ministers called for a secret ballot of Labour MPs to effectively force the prime minister out. Evening Standard · Jan 24, 2024
Gordon Brown calls for overhaul of benefits system as study reveals ‘crisis’ Exclusive: Jeremy Hunt urged to act over report showing poorest families spend 63p in each £1 on food and energy bills The Guardian - UK · Jan 21, 2024
Sir Tony Lloyd obituary Labour MP who served as a Foreign Office minister in the 1990s and later became Manchester’s police and crime commissioner The Guardian - UK · Jan 18, 2024
Kate Garraway supported as ‘vile’ Katie Hopkins mocks host’s grief over husband Derek Draper Hopkins targeted TV presenter in a ‘despicable’ video that’s outraged many, including Piers Morgan The Independent UK · Jan 15, 2024
The Independent UK · Jan 11, 2024 Kate Garraway gives update on family life after death of husband Derek Draper Draper died earlier this month after a heartbreaking battle with long Covid
The Conversation · Jan 10, 2024 Rishi Sunak's reputation for being tetchy has been seen in previous prime ministers – and it doesn't end well There are few more high-profile and pressurised jobs than leading a country. So it’s perhaps not surprising that the pressure appears to be getting to British prime minister Rishi Sunak.
The Independent UK · Jan 10, 2024 HS2 cost soars to £66.6bn, company chairman admits The executive chair of HS2 Ltd said the cost has almost doubled from an initial estimate under Gordon Brown’s government that it would cost just £37.5bn
The Guardian - UK · Jan 9, 2024 In 2008, we were inches from peace in the Middle East. I believe it’s still within our grasp It may seem impossible to seek a deal amid war. But the consequences of not doing so are too painful to contemplate, says former UK PM Gordon Brown
The National (Scotland) · Jan 8, 2024 Anas Sarwar refuses to say what new Holyrood powers he wants ANAS Sarwar refused to specify if he would back any new powers for Holyrood despite pledging to “make devolution work” for Scotland and the UK.
The Guardian - UK · Jan 7, 2024 Liam Byrne: ‘I’d say about a quarter to a third of MPs are the children of alcoholics’ In his new book, the Labour MP, who left a note to his Treasury successor in 2010 saying that there was ‘no money’, likens modern Britain to the last days of Rome. He talks about trauma, Starmer and creating a fairer society
The Guardian - UK · Jan 5, 2024 Derek Draper: the ‘cocky know-it-all’ who rebuilt his life after scandal Former lobbyist and Labour insider reinvented himself as a therapist after twice withdrawing from politics
Evening Standard · Jan 5, 2024 Derek Draper: the man he was before his tragic Covid battle A 'ruthless' political lobbyist, a 'huge character' and the love of Kate Garraway's life. Emma Loffhagen looks back on the life of Derek Draper
The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2023 Nelson Mandela taught me this: hope survives wherever people come together Even amid the despair that haunts our world, good can come out of evil. We need to believe that, for the sake of our future, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2023 On the eve of an election year, Rishi Sunak has a dilemma: at what point should he lose? Whether in May or autumn, the prime minister faces a fraught campaign, and even a shock win could make him worse off
The Guardian - UK · Dec 28, 2023 Here’s Sunak’s problem in deciding the election date: things are very bad now – and they could get much worse With the polls against him and the Tories in turmoil, a May date might be the PM’s best gamble – but gambling isn’t his forte, says Henry Hill, deputy editor of ConservativeHome