FORMER defence secretary Des Browne took his seat in the House of Lords yesterday as a Labour peer.

John Prescott and Sue Nye - the aide Gordon Brown unfairly blamed for his "bigot" gaffe - are in line for peerages in the former Prime Minister's resignation honours list.

Gordon Brown suggested his old friend Des Browne for a prestigious Nato post but was over-ruled by the Americans.

Labour MSP Cathy Jamieson will stand for former defence secretary Des Browne's seat at the next general election.

Former defence secretaries Des Browne and John Hutton appear before the Iraq inquiry.

A SENIOR figure is to quit Labour's Holyrood front bench after deciding to stand for a Westminster seat, it was announced today.

We learn this morning that Cathy Jamieson, the Labour MSP for Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley and Shadow Housing Secretary, seeks to replace Des Browne as MP for Kilmarnock & Loudoun. She should be wary as history is against her: only one sitting MSP has managed to make it to Westminster - David Mundell, then MSP for the South of Scotland and now MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweed...

Labour MSP Cathy Jamieson is to bid for the Westminster seat being vacated by Des Browne at the general election.

Labour MSP Cathy Jamieson today announced her intention to bid for the Westminster seat being vacated by former defence secretary Des Browne at the next general election.

FORMER defence secretary Des Browne has announced he is to quit the House of Commons at the next general election.