Love-struck Brown and Obama unveil own ‘special relationship’
After the love-in between Gordon Brown and Barack Obama at the Foreign Office this morning there's no surprise the Prime Minister was displaying a new spring in his
step. The meeting and subsequent press conference must have exceeded even his expectations. There may not be the sparky Blair-Bush rapport,… [continued] THE MOLE: OBAMA VISIT
The Mole's earlier posting today: Brown's photo op 
Brown will not get global deal – but he will get a grinning group photo
Amid some of the greatest hype and tightest security seen for decades, London has finally been hit by the G20. But after all the grand talk and heightened expectations, will it end up being the New
Deal or the No Deal summit? Gordon Brown and his spinners have sensibly… [continued] THE MOLE: G20 SUMMIT
Obama at G20: being President just got heavier
Brown downplays his once high hopes for G20 unity
police tactics set the scene for violence at G20
Rumour puts Tory HQ on the spot over Commons expenses leaks
Sir Stuart Bell's claim that details of all 646 MPs' expenses claims are being hawked around the media with a starting price of £300,000 has, understandably, sparked much speculation
in Westminster. It has also seen the launch of an inquiry that, for once, may have to actually come to… [continued] THE MOLE: EXPENSES ROW
MPs' expenses claims 'on sale' to media for £300,000
People: Why did Jacqui Smith spurn chance of free home?
Jacqui Smith on a knife-edge after husband’s blue movie revelation
It seems quite possible that £10-worth of blue movies will finally spell the end of Jacqui Smith's career as Home Secretary. There were already many in Westminster - not a few of
them on her own benches - who thought her second home allowance claim was enough to… [continued] THE MOLE: EXPENSES ROW
McNulty: Will Standards Committee act now?
The Mole: More outer-London MPs profit from McNulty wheeze
Matthew Carr: The Met’s Operation Overkill
Talk of Palace reforms takes eyes off Brown’s borrowing volte face
If it was intended as a diversionary tactic, it worked. Gordon Brown's briefing in Brazil that he had had talks with The Queen about changing the law of succession
has succeeded in diverting the following media pack from criticising Brown's world rescue mission. It also threatens to conceal the… [continued] THE MOLE: PALACE REVOLUTION
People: Brown Brown plots a Palace revolution
The Mole: Top journos refuse to join globe-trotting Gordon
Police probe into ‘MI5 complicity in torture’ puts Jacqui Smith on spot
The Attorney General's decision to call in the Met to investigate claims of complicity by British spooks in the case of Binyam Mohamed threatens to put Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, in the dock over her new strategy for winning the hearts and minds of the Muslim community in Britain.… [continued] THE MOLE: TORTURE ALLEGATION
Top journalists refuse to join globe-trotting Gordon ‘Speedo’ Brown
Downing Street has been miffed to discover that most of Fleet Street's finest have chosen not to cover the Prime Minister's 'Save the World' vanity tour. Instead the hacks paying £5,000 to be on the PM's jet are mostly - with due respect to them - from the second division.… [continued] THE MOLE: BROWN TOUR
Gordon Brown saves the world – but what about Britain?
While Gordon Brown is on his worldwide vanity trip, Mervyn King's warning to Downing Street to shelve plans for a fresh increase in public spending in the
forthcoming Budget is set to increase the tensions around the Cabinet table at home. Brown held a brief Cabinet on Tuesday before… [continued] THE MOLE: BUDGET ROW
Mervyn King and PM at odds over economy rescue
Will Self: Tony McNulty’s expenses scam is nothing new
Twenty more outer-London MPs profit from the McNulty wheeze
At least 20 other MPs have been caught in the 'McNulty Triangle' by claiming allowances for running second homes within easy commuting distance of the House of Commons. The 'name and shame' list of MPs with outer-London seats who have claimed thousands of pounds in allowances has provoked outrage… [continued] THE MOLE: EXPENSES ROW
Ken Clarke blunder puts inheritance tax back on agenda
Blundering Ken Clarke has given the middle classes a million reasons to thank him this morning. Without Clarke's bull-in-a-china-shop intervention at the weekend, David
Cameron and George Osborne could have quietly ditched the Conservatives' plans to raise the threshold for inheritance tax to £1m on the grounds that the economic… [continued] THE MOLE: TORY CONFUSION
The Mole: Tories expecting tax cuts should not hold their breath
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