Gordon Brown has returned to Downing Street amid warnings from Labour MPs that his position as Prime Minister was becoming increasingly untenable.

Back into the Westminster Village. Readers may have already seen the news reports alleging that Gordon Brown bullied members of his own staff in Downing Street (his office, it should be said, denies such claims). Apparently, a charity that runs a sort of hotline service took a call or calls from folk at Number 10 pleading for help. The issue threatens to turn into a major political storm. On the B...

Sounds like Labour MPs made their feelings about the expenses debacle known to Chief Whip Nick Brown at the party’s meeting last night. A couple that I spoke to and those on Radio 4 just now, Mark Fisher and Stuart Bell, seemed to be taking the same line. They were angry over the handling of the situation, but they blamed bad advice in Downing Street and hinted that Brown – who they ur...

DOWNING Street last night played down a reports that Prime Minister Gordon Brown is planning to offer MPs a £3,000 wage rise to buy off a back-bench rebellion over expenses.

You might have heard or read about 10 Downing Street's new cheap-as-chips WordPress website, but did you know that it cost the taxpayer £100,000? Mike Rouse is furious: News reaches me via a friend that the 10 Downing Street website refit to WordPress cost in the region of a shocking £100,000. What’s more, however, is that the theme for the site (according to a scoop on Dizzy Thinks) has actua...

Tom has kindly been keeping tabs on the Downing Street email situation, and he tells me that they're a month away from a fix. The emails I've gathered have been faxed to Downing Street, with the following message: Hello, Downing...

I suggest you keep a close eye on Guido Fawkes' blog this weekend. Guido alleges that a Downing Street operation, co-ordinated by Damian McBride - the Prime Minister's political and press adviser - has attempted to smear Conservative MPs, including...

Downing Street is trying to downplay this as a “blog story” knowing that journalists and the public won’t be so interested in another online spat.  That attempt to spin the story away has failed, because everyone realises that it is in reality a story from the heart of Downing Street. Downing Street’s press office has been

The government has belatedly decided to disagree with UNITE, one of its largest benefactor Unions. Alarm bells have gone off in Downing Street. They remember too well the damage the winter of discontent did to them in the 1970s and do not wish to be too

Westminster, today, is all a-titter about an anecdote contained within this FT article about Steve Hilton. It is, it must be said, a good 'un: "Mr Hilton’s crusade against employment legislation also saw him suggest that Mr Cameron just ignore European labour regulations on temporary workers, prompting an exasperated exchange with Jeremy Heywood, Downing Street’s permanent se...