Today's front pages are every bit the disaster for Gordon Brown and Labour that you would expect the day after he was found to have described a 65-year-old Labour-voting widow as "bigoted". And this morning it seems appropriate to reflect briefly on a speech Gordon Brown made just seven weeks ago – about the choice […]
The rolling news media are not going to drop the story about Gordon Brown calling a Rochdale voter, Gillian Duffy, "bigoted", and the front pages tomorrow are liable to be devastating for Labour. Here are my thoughts on the incident and what it tells us about the man seeking to be elected Prime Minister by […]
Gordon Brown has met precious few real voters during the course of the campaign – as David Cameron has been saying, the PM has been going from "safe house to safe house", only meeting Labour Party activists. And today we got a glimpse of what happens when he does meet a real person who deigns […]
Desperate times call for desperate measures, they say. And the Labour campaign took a surreal turn this morning. The great relaunch of Labour's campaign took place this morning at an event in Corby – where Louise Bagshawe is poised to oust Labour MP Phil Hope – and involved Brown making a series of outrageous claims […]
…but this is your own party’s website: Original here.Fast reaction Tory poster:
"Gordon Brown appealed yesterday for a "progressive alliance" of natural Labour and Liberal Democrat supporters to join forces to keep the Conservative Party out of power. In an interview with The Independent, Mr Brown said his new "mission" and "offer" to the British people was the creation of a "new politics" after the MPs' expenses […]
Peter Mandelson is quoted in today's People newspaper, making an extraordinary attack on the role being played by Mrs Sarah Brown in the General Election: "I'm sure Sarah Brown is a great wife and a wonderful mother, but by having her on his arm Gordon isn't going to win the election. If you appear to […]
Here are some of the claims made by Brown and Clegg, along with their rebuttal: Gordon Brown claims he has promised to increase police spending every year: "I'm afraid the Conservatives are not prepared to guarantee, as we are prepared to do, that we will continue to fund the police force and the spending on […]
Brown's first Parliamentary outing took place in 1979. He lost Edinburgh South to Michael Ancram by about two and a half thousand votes. Although the seat was always close-fought, it had stayed Conservative even during Labour's 1966 landslide. Brown would have known when selected that, after four years of Labour Government, it would most likely […]
We have already covered this morning the assertion from Transport Secretary Lord Adonis that Labour and the Lib Dems are natural allies. And it would seem that there are even more senior members of the Cabinet who are urging tactical voting against the Conservatives – in other words suggesting that Labour-inclinced voters should back the […]
We are led to believe that Gordon Brown wants to meet real people during the campaign, but the latest evidence suggests that this is in no way the case. The footage is not yet available online (and as soon as it is I will post it here) but leaving an event in London this afternoon, […]
Gordon Brown cannot usually resist the opportunity to brag about any opportunities he has had to speak with President Obama and play the role of international statesmen striding the globe. But next week he has opted to miss the chance for a final meeting with the US President before the general election. As Reuters reports, […]
The Independent splash this morning reveals a classic example of how a Gordon Brown promise is not all that it seems. After the Haiti earthquake, when a bunch of celebrities recorded a version of Everybody Hurts to raise money for victims, Gordon Brown announced to much fanfare – and with much name-checking of Simon Cowell […]
Yes, Gordon Brown really did once say the following: "National Insurance is a tax on ordinary families". He said it during the Budget debate in the House of Commons in 1996, just six months before he became Chancellor. Clearly his tune has changed since then, given his insistence on increasing NI, while the Conservatives' proposed […]
Yesterday Gordon Brown launched his five election pledges. CCHQ hit back with a rebuttal document which I summarise below. The Labour pledge: "Secure the recovery." The Conservative response: "The man who believed he had ended the economic cycle but gave us the biggest boom followed by the biggest bust cannot be trusted to secure the […]