On Monday the ban on "saviour siblings" was defeated, and research using hybrid embryos can go ahead, today attempts to introduce law requiring a father figure for IVF treatment have been defeated and lastly, the big one which always gets people up in ar… more »

LABOUR MP John McDonnell demanded that the Brown government make "a choice between democracy or oligarchy" at the weekend. At Saturday's Hands Off Venezuela national conference in London, he condemned new Labour's ongoing hostility towards Venezuela a… more »

Mr Brown this is a highly inappropriate time to be inviting Thatcher around for a friendly chit chat. There's something very wrong with this Labour government. An Autumn of Discontent is exactly what we need. more »

It certainly looks like it, most of the remotely "lefty" people in the cabinet have been moved off, and today Brown has finished appointing his junior ministers, some of which aren't even in the Labour Party, a few examples: We've got Sir Ara Darzi, h… more »

After a waste-of-time election we've got Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman, both solidly New Labour. You only need to look at the turn out, half of Labour Party members, and just 8% of affiliated Trade Unionists. I certainly couldn't vote for somebody… more »

Great just great, the guy is not even in the Prime Minister yet and he's already got people working away to see if privatising Channel 4 is an option for him, from the Torygraph. Asked if Mr Brown might sell Channel 4 to raise an estimated £1 billion,… more »

For the sake of the CLPs, here are all the Labour MPs that nominated Gordon Brown. I have to disagree with the People's Commissar who says the following: The sheer volume of MPs nominating Gordon speaks volumes about the unity in the PLP and it is… more »