Could Brown sack Darling and bring in Vince Cable?
What will Gordon Brown do if the bank bail-out doesn't work? One answer being put forward in Blairite circles yesterday is that the Prime Minister will dump his ultra-loyal
Chancellor Alistair Darling - and bring in Vince Cable as a part of a deal with the Liberal Democrats. It may… [continued]
People: Cable a star at old friend’s expense 
Rebel ring-leader tells Gordon Brown: ‘Hostilities are over’
Gordon Brown awoke this morning more in control of his party than he has been since the spring. It's taken economic meltdown - as well as a good conference speech, a modest opinion
poll bounce and a bold ministerial reshuffle - for him to achieve the remarkable turnaround. Just… [continued] THE MOLE: PLP MEETING
Gordon Brown needs to improve his spinning team
Mandelson’s return is bound to get the whisperers going again
Peter Mandelson’s stunning return from Brussels to the Cabinet table as Business Secretary sent shockwaves through Westminster today. When the Mole broke the news to one Labour MP,
his reply was: “Yeah, yeah, very funny.” The return of the uber-Blairite is extraordinary on several levels. The loathing between Gordon… [continued] The Mole: Cabinet reshuffle
In pictures: Mandy's back
People: Peter Mandelson's back in town
Dave pleases the faithful – but is the country listening?
David Cameron dispensed with the oratorical tricks that helped him win the Tory leadership three years ago to deliver a sober address with one message in mind: I am a prime
minister-in-waiting. His closing speech to the Conservative conference came after a difficult week in which the party's annual… [continued] THE MOLE: CAMERON SPEECH
Cameron's speech in full
Will financial turmoil drive voters back into Gordon Brown's arms?
Why Cameron’s speech didn’t really matter
Will financial turmoil drive voters back into Gordon Brown’s arms?
Fears are growing among top Tories that the global financial meltdown could send shares in David Cameron crashing. The agenda for the Conservative conference in Birmingham had been
carefully drawn up to focus on the economy, the NHS and 'broken Britain'. The plan was to use it to set out… [continued] THE MOLE: TORY CONFERENCE
Bail-out collapses under pressure from voters
The Mole: economic cloud has a silver lining for Gordon Brown
‘Don’t drift to the Left’, Ruth Kelly warns Labour in first interview
If Gordon Brown is forced out of office by Labour malcontents, Ruth Kelly will be the chief cheerleader for David Miliband as his replacement. That
much is clear from a defiant interview given by the Transport Secretary (she's still in the job until the Cabinet reshuffle expected late next week)… [continued] THE MOLE: KELLY RESIGNATION
The Mole: Maybe she really does want to spend time with her family
Maybe she really does want to spend more time with her family
The decision by Ruth Kelly to stand down as Transport Secretary at the next Cabinet reshuffle, ostensibly to spend more time with her family, has brought the conspiracy theorists out
in force. As Mike Smithson of the website Political Betting quite reasonably reminded readers this morning, Kelly was one of… [continued] THE MOLE: KELLY RESIGNATION
Hard work as Brown plays to his strengths
Seven out of 10 as Brown mixes personal and political
Gordon Brown stepped up to the biggest test of his political career with his speech to the Labour party conference this afternoon - and scored a solid seven out of ten. At
least that's what his audience thought. Predictably Ministers and MPs were publicly delighted with his performance and… [continued] THE MOLE: BROWN'S SPEECH
Hard work as Brown plays to his strengths
Full text of Gordon Brown's speech
Few are fooled as Miliband pays homage to an ‘inspirational’ PM
David Miliband’s speech to the Labour party conference yesterday was as much about the picture that followed it as the words it contained. As the Foreign Secretary accepted the respectful - but far from ecstatic - applause of the Labour faithful, a beaming Gordon Brown congratulated him for the benefit… [continued] THE MOLE: LABOUR CONFERENCE
Labour hasn’t been this gloomy since Kinnock lost in 1992
Gordon Brown has his work cut out to raise the spirits of the gloomiest Labour conference for 15 years when he makes his keynote speech in Manchester on Tuesday. The last time the
party was so depressed at its annual get-together was when it had just confounded all expectations and… [continued] THE MOLE: LABOUR CONFERENCE
New Labour: an elite defined by hate
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