The Latest Breaking News from Gordon Brown

Boris Johnson could be fifth-shortest serving Prime Minister since 1900

Mr Johnson is currently on the 1,048th day of his premiership

Wales Online · Jun 6, 2022

Boris Johnson’s tenure as PM: Nearly level with Brown and still behind May

Mr Johnson has also yet to outrun Neville Chamberlain.

The Independent UK · Jun 6, 2022

Edinburgh baby 'too small for parents to hold her' after arriving four months early

Lili Armstrong weighed just 1lb 6oz and was so tiny she could fit into her mum’s hand - but was saved thanks to the work of the Jennifer Brown Research Lab.

Edinburgh Live · Jun 6, 2022

‘Our ears were bleeding!’ – Harry Hill on making his Tony Blair rock opera

Saddam gets a Groucho Marx makeover, Gordon Brown sings about macroeconomics – and Cherie is part Lily Savage, part Lili Marleen. The big-collared comic reveals all about Tony!

The Guardian - UK · May 31, 2022

Tax rises, handouts, law-breaking: what do the Tories stand for now?

After a week in which Boris Johnson’s character has been at the heart of public debate, Conservative MPs worry about what has happened to their party

The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2022

Rishi Sunak’s tax rises: three of the biggest examined

Analysis: Increases to income and corporation tax and higher NICs have contributed to the biggest UK tax burden since the 1950s

The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2022

Rishi Sunak insists £15bn cost-of-living package will have ‘minimal’ impact on inflation

Chancellor denies package is un-Conservative, after thinktank describes it as ‘something Gordon Brown could be proud of’

The Independent UK · May 27, 2022

UK Government has ‘lost critical trust’ in Northern Ireland, says ex-minister

Lord Hain said the Government is no longer trusted in the way it was when led by former prime ministers John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

The Independent UK · May 26, 2022

A brief history of windfall taxes: who used them and why

Windfall taxes have been used by Tory governments at least three times in the last 40 years

The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2022

Steph McGovern almost threw up on Gordon Brown while hungover in an interview

The lunchtime talkshow host was summoned to Number 10 to interview then-Prime Minister Brown alongside Robert Peston – but she was so drunk from the night before she threw up inside the famous building

Daily Mirror · May 23, 2022