Prime Minister Gordon Brown stands accused this morning of using the UK's difficult economic position as a tool to maintain his grip on the country's premiership in the run-up to the projected May 6 election. From Bloomberg: “A weak...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown stands accused this morning of using the UK's difficult economic position as a tool to maintain his grip on the country's premiership in the run-up to the projected May 6 election. From Bloomberg: “A weak...

Only a few weeks ago, the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg was putting the word about that he did not fancy doing a deal with Gordon Brown in…...

MPs on the intelligence and security committee have expressed "disappointment" after Gordon Brown published their annual 2008/09 report four months late.

In a speech to Chatham House today, Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg set out what is at stake in foreign policy at the coming General Election.  Nick Clegg said: “Gordon Brown and David Cameron want to pretend that foreign policy...

We all know that politics is a game of two halves: Tories build a big lead in the first half; Labour press for an equalister in the second.But it seems Gordon Brown has been caught offside after an outrageous bid to woo football fan...

As a U.K. general election nears, London newspapers are serving up juicy morsels from a scabrous new book on politics. The extracts, from Andrew Rawnsley's...

U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has let loose with a new austerity budget and he's not being shy on the numbers this time around. The new 3 billion pound ($4.5 billion) cut in civil service pay includes a freeze on salaries which w...

U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has let loose with a new austerity budget and he's not being shy on the numbers this time around. The new 3 billion pound ($4.5 billion) cut in civil service pay includes a freeze on salaries which w...

How many times has Gordon Brown rebuked David Cameron for questioning him about personality and not policy at PMQs?And yet today the Prime Minister put "Gordon Brown the man" front and centre, just as people's minds are turning to M...

Gordon Brown has laid out his vision for Britain's recovery in a major speech on the economy, but the threat of further public sector strikes is reminding voters of the spending cuts still to come.

Gordon Brown has confirmed the Budget will be held in "two weeks' time", ending speculation about an early general election.

Gordon Brown is set to use a major speech on the economy to lay out his vision for Britain's recovery, but the threat of further public sector strikes is reminding voters of the spending cuts still to come.

Since the somewhat quixotic decision of the pro-European MP Quentin Davies to cross the floor to Labour because of his personal admiration for Gordon Brown, there have been surprisingly few high profile defections in the air, especi...

Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown hasn't even set a date for the British general election yet, but financial markets have already bet on the outcome by, among other things, hammering the pound. And why not, since the markets could ...

Which one of these things doesn't belong? From the Washington Post's On Leadership column:Barack Obama still sneaks cigarettes. Gordon Brown has a mean temper. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin struggles with her weight. At what point...

David Davis So, Gordon Brown has just popped in for a brew with the lads, over on the front, eh? Bet they’re pleased. The effing bastard will either win the election, or there’ll be a hung-one. You just watch. He’s a wicked socialis...

“How can we trust a man who still believes that this illegal war and all the horror it has caused was right?” said the Liberal Democrat Leader. Commenting on Gordon Brown’s appearance at the Iraq inquiry, Nick Clegg said: “This was ...

In Perth for the Scottish Liberal Democrat conference. Attention, at least in part, is elsewhere. Some party eyes wander towards the telly to catch up with what Gordon Brown is saying at the Iraq inquiry. Nick Clegg is no differen...

Gordon Brown gave a performance today to the Iraq Inquiry of surprising conviction - yet he still left huge questions unanswered. Like Tony Blair he believed that going…...