Gordon Brown: Why it’s time to take the shame out of need
As the cost-of-living crisis pushes more and more people into poverty, charities have become the last line of defence.
ByGordon Brown
Letter of the week: Money, money, money
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Gordon Brown is wrong – we need to renationalise energy permanently, not just temporarily
It would be an act of corporate welfare to privatise when the good times return.
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Keir Starmer is letting a crisis go to waste
The Labour leader’s hyper-cautious strategy may put him in government, but not in power.
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How Gordon Brown wields power behind the scenes in Starmer’s Labour
As the party seeks to forge a vote-winning policy agenda, it has turned to the “enormous brain” of the former…
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Was Gordon Brown a good prime minister?
From May to Thatcher, Stephen Bush and Jonn Elledge explore the tenures of previous leaders in a six-part series from…
Gordon Brown calls for developing world debt relief
In an interview published in this week’s New Statesman, the former PM and chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, has called…
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Gordon Brown: “The solution to this crisis is still global”
The former prime minister talks to Stephen Bush about economic crises, the retreat from globalisation and the most urgent priorities for…
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Prime minister says he hopes talks in the new year will set a timetable for handover to local forces
ByBrown seeks support for “Tobin tax”
PM secretly tries to persuade bankers to support transaction tax, while EU ministers express interes
ByMPs’ pay rise planned to prevent expenses rebellion
Downing Street plays down plan to raise salaries to limit anger over expenses measures
ByBrown’s PR gamble
Could a referendum on Scottish independence be held alongside a PR referendum on election day?
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