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Gordon Brown is the former British Prime Minister and ex-leader of the Labour Party. MP for the Scottish constituency of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, he is married with two sons.
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Tony Blair has rewritten history - without modesty or shame

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 19:43
If he wasn't in charge of the country when it all started to go wrong, then who was, asks Jeff Randall.

Gordon Brown announces charity work plans

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 17:47
Gordon Brown has announced his future plans, which include working to increase global access to education and boosting internet use in Africa.

Tony Blair: 'threatened' to leave Gordon Brown locked in toilet

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 08:38
Tony Blair joked that he would leave Gordon Brown locked in a lavatory if he didn't withdraw from the Labour leadership contest.

Tony Blair's memoirs: a strange book by a gifted man

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 08:19
Tony Blair's memoirs are unlike those of any previous prime minister, not least because of the space devoted to settling scores with his arch rival. But they fail to tell the whole story, says Simon Heffer.

Tony Blair on Gordon Brown: in quotes

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 00:08
The tensions between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown permeate almost every chapter of his memoir, which gives the most detailed account of the dysfunctional relationship between the two men. Gordon Rayner and Robert Winnett summarise the political and personal attacks on his colleague

Tony Blair's revenge on Gordon Brown puts Labour on brink of civil war

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 22:13
Tony Blair's attack on Gordon Brown could plunge Labour into a fresh civil war and send the party into electoral wilderness.

Tony Blair memoirs: a breathless journey laced with revenge

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 19:57
Telegraph View: Mr Blair was acutely aware that he was a cuckoo in the Labour nest

Tony Blair Journey: divisions threaten Labour, warns Lord Prescott

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 16:27
The division between Brownites and Blairites within Labour 'threatens to leave the party in the electoral wilderness for years'.

Tony Blair 'backs coalition over economy'

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 13:00
Former prime minister's book suggests David Cameron is right to focus on cutting the deficit despite opposition from Labour.

Tony Blair: Gordon Brown had 'zero' emotional intelligence

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 10:50
Blair writes that he repeatedly considered sacking Brown but decided he was better kept "inside and constrained".

Tony Blair: Gordon Brown was 'maddening' bully who blackmailed me

Wed, 09/01/2010 - 07:27
Tony Blair lambasted Gordon Brown in his memoir as a manipulative bully who blackmailed him over the cash for honours scandal and lost a winnable election by abandoning the policies of New Labour.

Tony Blair: Gordon Brown tried to blackmail me

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 22:27
Blair uses memoirs to expose Brown as manipulative figure who lost winnable election by abandoning principles of New Labour.

Tony Blair: my deep misgivings about Gordon Brown

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 22:13
Tony Blair decided that he could not get rid of his "maddening" chancellor as he was better inside and constrained than sacked.

Tony Blair on Labour's 1997 victory and learning to understand politics

Tue, 08/31/2010 - 22:07
Tony Blair opens A Journey by blaming Gordon Brown for Labour's general election defeat.

Alistair Darling in talks to publish his memoirs

Mon, 08/30/2010 - 15:07
Alistair Darling talks to literary agent Eddie Bell.

Alistair Darling in talks to publish his memoirs

Mon, 08/30/2010 - 15:07
Alistair Darling talks to literary agent Eddie Bell

How Bush and Blair plotted in secret to stop Brown

Sat, 08/28/2010 - 21:24
Tony Blair attempted to prolong his time as PM after being warned that Bush administration had "grave doubts".

Sorry we fell out, Gordon Brown tells old foe Tony Blair

Fri, 08/27/2010 - 21:44
Gordon Brown used one of his last official phone calls from Downing Street to apologise to Tony Blair for their poor relationship.

IFS analysis of Budget 2010: Who decides what is fair, and what isn't?

Fri, 08/27/2010 - 07:47
The Coalition's reforms are far better for the poor than Gordon Brown's handouts, says Neil O'Brien.

Alistair Darling: We lost power by ignoring deficit

Tue, 08/17/2010 - 22:13
Shadow chancellor Alistair Darling launched a thinly-veiled attack on former prime minister Gordon Brown last night, saying Labour lost the general election because it ignored the deficit.