The Latest Breaking News from Gordon Brown

The PM’s bad joke revealed his inability to read a room. How on earth will he cope in an actual election campaign, asks Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

There are things ministers must do but also actions we can take to help fellow citizens. Both are now essential, says former PM Gordon Brown

If I had to pick my favourite failed coup of the Gordon Brown premiership, it would have to be the Patricia Hewitt-Geoff Hoon plot. It was early January 2010 when the former cabinet ministers called for a secret ballot of Labour MPs to effectively force the prime minister out. 

Exclusive: Jeremy Hunt urged to act over report showing poorest families spend 63p in each £1 on food and energy bills

Labour MP who served as a Foreign Office minister in the 1990s and later became Manchester’s police and crime commissioner

Hopkins targeted TV presenter in a ‘despicable’ video that’s outraged many, including Piers Morgan

Draper died earlier this month after a heartbreaking battle with long Covid

There are few more high-profile and pressurised jobs than leading a country. So it’s perhaps not surprising that the pressure appears to be getting to British prime minister Rishi Sunak.

The executive chair of HS2 Ltd said the cost has almost doubled from an initial estimate under Gordon Brown’s government that it would cost just £37.5bn