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The toxin in new Labour (7)

As his nail-bitten fingers turned the pages of his speech in Downing Street on Friday morning, and he walked with unusually stiff self-consciousness back into No 10, the shield visibly dropped. Gordon Brown’s fundamental vulnerability could no longer be concealed. … Continue reading

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Charles Clarke tells Gordon Brown to quit

Charles Clarke, the former home secretary, has launched a withering attack on Gordon Brown, telling the Prime Minister to quit or Labour will be condemned to at least a decade in opposition. Mr Clarke said that Mr Brown should consider … Continue reading

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Labour MPs: We'll quit to force Brown out of No10

Rebel Labour MPs are threatening to force a series of parliamentary by-elections in a new attempt to oust Gordon Brown from Downing Street. Well-placed sources say that a number of Labour MPs are prepared to sacrifice themselves as part of … Continue reading

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Humiliating byelection defeat for Brown

David Cameron has inflicted a humiliating byelection defeat on Gordon Brown as the Conservatives beat Labour into second place in Norwich North. In the first electoral test since the MPs’ expenses scandal rocked Westminster, the Tories’ Chloe Smith won the … Continue reading

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New Labour circles the wagons

Gordon Brown appeared to have faced down any immediate threat to his premiership from a backbench rebellion tonight coming through a meeting of the parliamentary Labour party having seen off his critics and former ministers who called on him to … Continue reading

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