Blog posts tagged "Gordon Brown"

February 23, 2010 9:01 am 22 Comments

Has politics been turned on its head, with Labour now the party of "big business", blogs Jon Snow.

January 11, 2010 9:01 am 15 Comments

Last week's failed plot to oust Gordon Brown as Labour leader may be the consequence of the fact that Cabinet control over the prime minister has all but collapsed, blogs Jon Snow.

January 6, 2010 4:01 pm 24 Comments

Is the challenge to Gordon Brown's leaderhip of the Labour party by Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt merely the shortest suicide note in history, asks Jon Snow?

December 10, 2009 12:03 pm 12 Comments

Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy put aside old rivalries to set out a joint vision for a stronger economic future, blogs Jon Snow for Channel 4 News.

November 10, 2009 9:47 am No Comments

The mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan attacks Gordon Brown for equipment shortages. Jon Snow blogs on the messy business of war for politicians.

October 22, 2009 2:35 pm 11 Comments

Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow says he is not surprised to read the Bank of England governor Mervyn King and Gordon Brown have different views about breaking up the mega-banks.

October 21, 2009 11:41 am No Comments

Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow asks why there was such a strong reaction to the idea the Tony Blair could become president of the EU.

September 28, 2009 5:29 pm No Comments

Few of us thought we’d live to see the day when a Labour party conference would rise as one to their feet in a standing ovation for Peter Mandelson. But today they did. Of course, we have seen it before – when Michael Heseltine did the same for the improbable electoral prospects of John Major.

1:24 pm No Comments

Oh I do like to be beside the sea…well normally anyway and this Labour Party Conference is very far from “normal”. For a start it is flat, flat as yer hat. Secondly all those luvvies, or most of them, have evaporated back whence they came. We are down to the formidable rump of Trades Unionists [...]

July 29, 2009 4:57 pm No Comments

So Peter Mandelson tells us Gordon Brown could handle a TV debate during the elections against David Cameron and Nick Clegg. Mr Cameron has responded by saying he wants one. This returns me to a theme I’ve visited before on Snowblog, and that relates to the nature of our own presidential politics. Britain’s democratic deficit [...]