All news on the topic: Gordon Brown

'Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is gambling voters will swallow the sugar-rush of tax cuts and ignore the bitter taste of further public spending cuts,' the Mirror's Jason Beattie writes

Ahead of the Budget, figures show that household incomes have risen significantly slower under the Conservatives than when Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were in No10

Spending wisely saves lives, says Fleet Street Fox. Wasting billions on PPE deals with your mates does not.

The former Labour PM said 'every Prime Minister makes mistakes' - and admitted he'd had to say sorry himself on 'one or two occasions' as he urged Rishi Sunak to say sorry

The former prime minister has released research suggesting that almost four million people were now living below 'the safety net'

Labour former Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged businesses to donate goods such as toilet rolls, soap and toothpaste to charities to help families who cannot pay their bills

Leader of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, trade unionist Davie Cooper, has died at the age of 84, after a long career as union convenor at the Govan yard and a powerful figure behind the scenes

The Mirror's Paul Routledge writes about his memories of Derek Draper: 'It is the conviviality that survives. I can hear Dolly now, voice raised, hair swept back, head tilted, grinning'

Labour leader Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves gathered in Edinburgh for a memorial service to pay tribute to former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling

Figures from across Labour's past and present, including Gordon Brown, Alastair Campbell, Lord Mandelson and Ed Balls, all attended the service in north London

Robert Jenrick’s resignation as Immigration Minister is merely the latest manifestation of this relentless decline

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This Thatcher worship to woo Conservative voters blurs the unpalatable consequences of Right-wing Conservatism that people suffer today - eg dirty water and big bills from her privatisation – so lets the Tories off the hook

Keir Mudie says former Health Secretary Matt Hancock showed arrogance and ineptitude when confronted about his decisions during the coronavirus pandemic at the Covid inquiry

Labour former Chancellor Alistair Darling, who turned around the economy following the financial crisis and led the Better Together campaign in Scotland, has died aged 70

Theresa May shared an image of former Prime Ministers at the Cenotaph - but there were only six in the shot, with flash-in-a-pan leader Liz Truss cropped out

Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Sir Tony Blair and Sir John Major attended the national Remembrance Sunday service - though Ms Truss did not lay a wreath during her 49-day premiership

The argument for getting rid of the Lords has never been stronger than following the spectacle of the King's Speech

Officials at Save the Children and UNICEF beg for a ceasefire to save lives on both sides of the Israel-Gaza conflict, with hundreds of people still missing after airstrikes

The Scottish Labour leader said his party should be 'brave' and act to reform the upper chamber when it has 'maximum political capital' in the early years of winning power

Surely the Prime Minister's time would be better spent domestically at the moment, instead of making a trip to world capitals for an exchange of platitudes

The Labour grandee and peer defended 'cautious Keir' and offered him some advice on revealing his plans for power

The former Prime Minister and ex-Labour leader made the intervention for a windfall levy as preparations intensify for this year's COP28 climate conference in Dubai

The former Prime Minister accused Mr Trump - who is bidding to become US President again - of exploiting Americans and turning on scapegoats, while also slating Hungarian PM Viktor Orban

The former Prime Minister wants the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute the matter as the two-year anniversary approaches of the fall of Kabul