Latest: Gordon Brown's determination to toughen cannabis laws soon after becoming Prime Minister was blamed for the furore around sacking of Government's top drugs adviser... more
Latest: Gordon Brown pitched wholeheartedly into a campaign to promote Tony Blair's bid to be EU president as former PM faces mounting opposition ... more
Labour faces general election disaster in London that will put more than a third of its sitting MPs in danger, Evening Standard research reveals... more
Former Cabinet minister Charles Clarke today opened Labour tensions by calling for tax increases, deep spending cuts and cash charges to users of public services including the NHS.... more
Gordon Brown took a fresh battering as Labour MPs said he was “doomed” and former cabinet minister Charles Clarke said he was ashamed to be in the party... more
Georgia Gould isn’t the only child of a Labour dynasty making her mark in politics. Emily Hill reveals the other holders of famous names following the family tradition... more
Former home secretary Charles Clarke has denounced plans to build up to three "Titan" super prisons as a "major step backwards" in a powerful attack on government penal policy... more
Another day, another fightback in ruins. Charles Clarke's brutal intervention has ensured the Prime Minister's big economic speech tonight will be derailed just like his housing and fuel policy launches... more
Forget the Commons - London's finest restaurants are where all of the real political scheming takes place, as former Labour minister Gerald Kaufman reveals.... more
Sofia Coppola's boyfriend is lead singer and they won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album this year. Now, Phoenix tell Nosheen Iqbal, they are set to conquer London
Move over, Mahiki. Nightclub entrepreneurs Charlie Gilkes and Duncan Stirling are soon to launch a new Eighties-inspired club in Chelsea, in honour of Lady Thatcher
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