How long can Ming hang on?
When it looked like there was going to be an autumn election, Ming Campbell’s position was safe for the simple…
Blood Sports
Toby set tongues wagging with his post about whether David Cameron was Muhammed Ali to Gordon Brown’s George Foreman. (Do…
Brown’s Euro-vision
Do read Mark Mardell’s piece on Gordon Brown’s meeting with Jose Manuel Barroso. Particularly interesting, is his account of Brown’s…
Is this the new ‘John Major tucks his shirts into his underpants’?
One of the many things that undermined John Major’s authority was the idea, first put about by Alastair Campbell, that…
Get ready for a row over Europe
After being pummelled at PMQs today, the last thing Gordon Brown wants is an escalation of the row over the…
Bush’s right-hand man ranks the Republican field
This speech by Dan Bartlett, who was formerly a key Bush adviser, is well worth watching. Most of it is…
Brown disappoints his own supporters while Cameron cheers his
Columns by two of Britain’s most astute political commentators will not improve Gordon Brown’s mood this morning. In The Guardian,…
Olympic Fever
From today’s Guardian: London Olympic organisers have been forced to abandon their original plans for the canoe slalom venue after…
The blame game
The fall out from the election debacle continues this morning. The ‘young Turks’ surrounding Gordon Brown—principally, Douglas Alexander, Ed Balls…
Brown’s poll pretence
At his monthly press conference, Gordon Brown is keeping up the pretence that the polls had nothing to do with…
How Gordon got into this mess
In the FT this morning, Philip Stephens neatly sums up how Gordon Brown got into this current mess. There is…
Brown won’t send the young Turks into exile
Perhaps, the best guide to the mood in Brown world this morning comes in Jackie Ashley’s column in The Guardian.…
Polls show that the Tories might have won an autumn election
The details of the YouGov / Sunday Times poll show just how dangerous a November election would have been for…
Brown attempts damage control
Gordon Brown’s performance on Sunday AM this morning did little to repair the damage that has been done to his…
Cameron hits Brown hard
David Cameron takes a decidedly more aggressive tone in a piece he has written for tomorrow’s Sunday Times than he…
Why Brown bottled it
The News of the World front page tomorrow blasts, “Poll kills election.” The details of the poll, which the News…
Tories 3 points ahead in the country as a whole
It just keeps getting better and better for the Conservatives and worse and worse for Gordon Brown. A new YouGov…
How much does this hurt Brown?
A relaxed, confident looking David Cameron has just been on the BBC hitting all the right notes about Gordon Brown’s…
Will he go now?
As Gordon Brown prepares for tomorrow’s crunch meeting on whether or not to call an election the case against going…
More grim poll news for Brown
Gordon’s decision just got trickier. The latest figures from The Guardian / ICM poll show that 48% of voters want…
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