Articles tagged with: gordon brown
As former British Prime Minister Tony Blair publishes his memoirs, Laura Macphee assesses the impact the book will have on Blair and the future of the Labour Party.
Gordon Brown will not be missed as our prime minister, but his impact on the UK economy as chancellor must be applauded.
With the councils ‘urged’ to publish their detailed spending, what implications will this have?
A coalition between the Old and New factions of the Labour Party need not compromise the politics of either but could give rise to a new Labour party, with the hope and excitement of 1997 strengthened by the realism of today.
(c) Sarah Evans
I had been chasing John McDonnell for an interview ever since he announced his candidacy. When I finally spoke with him, late last Thursday evening, he had just arrived at his constituency …
It had all gone so well. David Beckham had managed to deliver our book to FIFA without sustaining an injury or mentioning the war. Everyone was smiling, Becks managed to get through a whole speech …
A Lib-Con coalition was not only the right choice for the politically expedient and economically minded – it was the right choice for the public, full stop.
As Gordon Brown’s career in Westminster draws to a close, lessons learnt from his reign can be applied to the future of the Labour party.
(c) MHJohnson
Oh dear, we’ve broken politics. As one political commentator put it, the public hasn’t so much spoken as mumbled incoherently and stormed off. That said, politics has been crumbling for a while now, the …
(c) Philipp Klinger
If Nick Robinson’s striped blue tie signalled ominously what was to come, David Dimbleby’s neutrally non-committal purple one sealed it: red was no longer in the majority, and yellow was heavily under-represented. But …
(c) celikins
Writing their semi-satirical 1969 hit about a former resident of Tucson, Arizona, Lennon and McCartney were hardly suggesting the most radical reorms to immigration policy in recent American history. Four decades later however …
As we enter the final straight of the election campaign, we are no surer of the result than at the start. But the campaign has thrown up is that Labour could end up with the most number of seats in Parliament after coming third in the share of the vote. The fact that we would use conventions to decide our Prime Minister in this event could lead to calls for a written constitution.
