Gordon Brown, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, today held a press conference at Labour HQ on the future of the economy. Gordon Brown said: "This is not a game show, or just a TV spectacle, it is a General Election to decide your future: your future security, your future jobs, your future prosperity. "There is one party in this campaign that wants the focus to be on policy and on subs...

Asked if the Prime Minister was satisfied that security for Ministers was sufficient in light of the fact a protester had thrown custard over Lord Mandelson at a Government event this morning, the Prime Minister s Spokesman (PMS) said that security arrangements for Ministers were kept under constant review. It was our long established position not to comment on the protective security arrangements...

Gordon Brown resigned last night, and new Prime Minister David Cameron has formed a Government in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, with Nick Clegg to be his Deputy Prime Minister. According to Politics Home, William Hague, expected to be made the new Foreign Secretary later today, said the Conservatives and Lib Dems had agreed that they would create a legal guarantee for a referendum over any...

I am a loyal Conservative; very loyal, in fact, and I support the work of David Cameron specifically as Prime Minister and the Tory-led coalition generally. They are a much better government than Labour could ever have formed. However, tonight, the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister have made a big mistake and even loyal Conservatives have to say this. This morning, the Cable story (I though...

Labour's Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has launched 'Building Britain's Future', a plan setting out how the Labour Government will create a fairer, stronger and more prosperous country. The plan’s focus on jobs highlights the Labour Government’s belief that the country cannot afford to lose another generation to unemployment as the Conservatives allowed to happen in...

Conservative government would impose a tough crackdown on Islamic extremism the shadow security minister has said.

If you're looking for job security, you probably don’t want to run for prime minister of Japan. Prime Minister Taro Aso’s government is once again under threat, following former Japanese minister Yoshimi Watanabe’s resignation from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has governed Japan with few interruptions since 1955. Watanabe's move comes at a time when Prime M...

Gordon Brown yesterday became a blogger, writing for the new 'Building Britain's Future' blog. In the Prime Minister's first blog article he wrote: I have today published the Government's plan for Building Britain's Future. It is a radical vision for a fairer, stronger and more prosperous society for all. We have made enormous strides, driving up standards of health c...

Asked who would be running the Government when the Prime Minister was on holiday, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister would be in charge of the Government over the summer, as would normally be the case. Put that Alastair Darling would be in charge when the Prime Minister was away, the PMS said that the Prime Minister was the Prime Minister and would remain in charge, whether he was on holiday ...

Asked whether the Prime Minister would be publishing a written statement on the National Security Strategy today and whether the Prime Minister would be publishing a statement on the Intelligence and Security Committee report into the July 7th attacks, the PMS said that on the latter, people should not anticipate that today, not least because we would not expect to publish that until the legal pro...