This week’s British Labour Party conference in Brighton was supposed to act as a springboard for the desperate re-election hopes of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. It failed, writes Alex Mitchell from London.
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The Sun sets on UK Labour
Gordon Brown knew The Sun would back the Tories over Labour for the 2010 UK election — but he didn’t know the paper would do it right before he made his big pitch to the party. Suddenly, the press pack only cared about one thing, and it wasn’t fiscal policy.
Gordon Brown, dead PM walking
British PM Gordon Brown addressed the Labour Party conference with his party trailing around 19 points in the opinion polls. It wasn’t so much about winning the next election as stopping the bleeding.
More of the same from Gordon Brown
The British PM’s re-election speech didn’t offer anything new, just more childcare, incomprehensible fiddling about with constitutional reform and a sudden concern about police response times, says John Rentoul.
Gordon Brown’s stump speech: we must “fight to win”
Nine months out from a general election, British PM Gordon Brown has addressed the Labour Party’s autumn conference with his tactics for getting the nation back on side. And boy was it long, says Simon Carr.
Guy Rundle: Choose your own adventure with the British government
You would think that, faced with the choice of either delaying the release of a report on parliamentary salaries, or releasing one saying MPs were underpaid by £10,000 a year, you would delay the report. Wouldn’t you? Wouldn’t you?
Gordon Brown survives (for now): what the pundits say
Early this morning local time, British MPs offered the embattled British PM a reprieve. Pundits think it won’t last long.
Memo to Labour: real change only comes via an election
The Labour Party is determinedly unwilling to believe that its electoral sickness is terminal, says Dominic Lawson. But there is really only one cure.
Political snippets: Grim times for British Labour, home and away
Richard Farmer wraps today’s political titbits: Could British Labour come home fourth in EU elections? NT minister cleared of swine flu and government breathes a sigh of relief over Chinalco.
The endgame is near for Brown
Even a strong leader would struggle to survive the mess in Britain — and Gordon Brown is not that.
Why we never joined the media’s Gordon Brown fan club
Far from being a brave warrior re-establishing the true Labour way after the cheesy aberration that was Tony Blair, Brown was absolutely central to the New Labour project, writes Rob Lyons.
Guy Rundle: British Labour deathwatch, part 559
The slow death of the entire British Labour Party of the UK continues apace, with the resignation of key ministers like Hazel Blears.
MPs call for Gordon Brown to quit
A letter has been circulating amongst UK Labour MPs calling for the resignation of Gordon Brown after Hazel Blears became the fourth MP to resign from the Cabinet in 24 hours.
Many more MPs will go: Brown
Gordon Brown says more MPs will be suspended from the British Labour party in his crackdown on the abuse of parliamentary expenses.
Guy Rundle: Grubbier than your average British Labour stuff-up
How is it that the British Labour party’s future and reputation had been put in the hands of a man who had wrecked it once?
More deals, more conflicts for the Rudd family business empire
The Rudd family business interests are back in the news after Therese Rein’s British business won a lucrative $200 million contract to help up to 1 million people with disabilities find work, writes Stephen Mayne.
