Labour Infighting
Blair faces revolt over devolution - 29/06/97
Blair faces revolt on student debts - 25/08/97
Blair offers olive branch to MPs in benefit rebellion - 18/12/97
Labour rebel attacks 'Boy's Own' reshuffle - 28/07/98
Civil war that hit New Labour project - 11/01/99 If there is one thing Labour has always been good at it's civil war and internal blood letting...
Blair faces revolt over IRA releases - 24/01/99
Glenda heading for a new drama - 22/10/99
Jackson attacks Labour over mayorality - 23/10/99
Blair backs Dobson for mayor - 27/10/99
(Clare) Short shrift for Livingstone - 30/10/99
Dobson on the defensive - 06/11/99
Labour under fire over Livingstone - 17/11/99
Livingstone heads for second try - 17/11/99
Straw sets out battlelines - 19/11/99
Prescott's future in doubt - 02/12/99
Prescott: I will not quit - 05/12/99
Hostile homecoming for Prescott - 08/12/99
Blair weakens Prescott powerbase - 13/12/99 All the spin doctoring in the world cannot hide the fact that Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has been deprived of a huge part of his power base by Tony Blair
Prescott demotion claims 'garbage' - 13/12/99
Prescott 'sidelined' claim Tories - 04/01/00
Labour PR divisions on display - 05/01/00
Leaks spark Labour PR row - 05/01/00
Judgement due on Labour's union vote ban - 13/01/00
Dobson attacks Tyson decision - 15/01/00
'Direct action' row hits Livingstone - 18/01/00
Government broke EU law, says PM's wife - 19/01/00
Blair on crushing attack on 'Red Ken' - 19/01/00
Labour leaders raise mayoral stakes - 19/01/00
Labour pop guru turns on Blair - 21/01/00
Dobson: Party machine 'did me harm' - 27/01/00
Labour MP attacks Dewar - 30/01/00
Defence minister (Kilfoyle) quits - 31/01/00
Kilfoyle's resignation letter - 30/01/00
Minister (Kilfoyle) heads for 'heartlands' - 31/01/00
People in Parliament: Peter Kilfoyle, Labour, Liverpool Walton North West
On the benches (with Peter Kilfoyle) - 03/02/00
Livingstone's labour - 03/02/00
Whitehall 'put the knife in' - Mowlam - 03/02/00
Kilfoyle criticises Labour 'vacuum' - 05/02/00
Blair to call for unity - 06/02/00
Michael told to 'pray' for job - 06/02/00
Fellow MP urges Michael to go - 08/02/00
Jackson to vote Livingstone - 08/02/00
Michael stares defeat in the face - 09/02/00
Blair under fire in devolution debacle - 10/02/00
Morgan is new Wales Labour leader - 11/02/00
Labour backs Dobson for mayor - 20/02/00
Blair's mayor nightmare - 20/02/00
Rover unions turn on government - 19/03/00
Ex-minister [Geoffrey Robinson] criticises DTI over Rover - 24/03/00
Former minister [Peter Kilfoyle] blasts Budget - 27/03/00
Blair fails to give Byers full support over Rover crisis - 30/03/00
Labour is facing a nuclear battle - 30/03/00
Livingstone expelled as ballots close - 03/04/00
Straw faces Commons showdown - 04/04/00
Straw concedes on information bill - 05/04/00
36 Labour MPs defy Blair over information Bill - 06/04/00
Bill sparks five Labour revolts - 06/04/00
Short attacks 'heartlands' focus - 07/04/00
Blair hit by revolt over air sell-off - 10/05/00
Air vote rebels 'expect compromise' - 10/05/00
Livingstone deputy defies Blair on cars - 11/05/00
Ex-minister warns Blair - 11/05/00
Labour denies union policy plot - 11/05/00
A marriage of convenience? - 11/05/00
Labour Left campaigns to readmit Livingstone - 12/05/00
Cohen begs Britain not to purchase Euro missile - 14/05/00
Cabinet split on euro bursts into the open - 17/05/00 Mandelson and Stephen Byers called for the Government to adopt a more "positive" stance
Colleagues carrying a grudge - 19/05/00
Brown seeks to silence 'pea brain' Mandelson - 21/05/00
Labour fury over £29m for Dome - 24/05/00
Cabinet trio confront Brown over Euro - 28/05/00
The forces of desperation - 29/05/00
Bleasdale and Kilfoyle give Labour hard time - 04/06/00
Sawyer attack eclipses health summit - 05/06/00
150 Labour rebels 'back hunt ban' - 07/06/00
Blair re-ignites cabinet cold war - 07/06/00
Blair 'all spin and little delivery' - Field - 09/06/00
Brown loses key ally [Nick Brown] on euro - 11/06/00 but has gained a new supporter in the form of David Blunkett
Prescott to trot the globe as Third World ambassador - 11/06/00 Critics say secretary of state sent overseas in sidelining by Blair
Brown defies Blair camp over the euro - 12/06/00
Euro row widens cabinet split - 12/06/00 [Brown] is said to want Labour to keep quiet about the issue
Livingstone Labour backers vow to fight on - 16/06/00
Cabinet euro rift denied - 16/06/00
100 Labour backbenchers plot showdown with PM - 25/06/00 One minister described Blair as "dithering, incapable of saying no, incapable of making up his mind"
The MP who refuses to be bullied [Andrew Mackinlay, Thurrock] - 25/06/00
Labour accused of stifling pro-hunt members - 27/06/00 Party leadership plunges into row with its own supporters after cancelling campaign group meeting
Labour's euro-men defy Brown - 27/06/00 Single currency supporters serve notice they will not be silenced by Chancellor
Mandelson hints at deal on voting reform - 29/06/00 Compromise possible on electoral reform in attempt to continue co-operation with Liberal Democrats
Moving forward together, but apart - 30/06/00 Blair disagrees with Cook that all EU states must proceed at the same speed
Follett steps up Blair attack - 02/07/00
Ex-minister to defy No 10 over party post - 02/07/00 Second challenger emerges for post of Labour party's parliamentary chairman
'Unreliable' Mowlam is out of Labour's election A-team - 02/07/00 Government's most popular minister to be banished to regions during next electoral campaign
Livingstone: 'Readmit me or face consequences" - 03/07/00
Castle attacks 'intolerant Labour' - 04/07/00 Baroness criticises New Labour's style of leadership for first time, accusing it of stifling dissent
Leaked memos look like a campaign - 04/07/00 it is increasingly looking like the rival camps are engaged in virtual open warfare over the issue
Cabinet rift widens over euro - 06/07/00
Brown gets Number 10 to disown Cook - 09/07/00 Prime minister agrees to chancellor's demands to 'rubbish' the foreign secretary over his comments on the euro
Labour activists take key vote - 09/07/00
Labour lawyers turn on Irvine - 11/07/00
MPs attack Beckett's stance on reforms - 11/07/00 Leader of the Commons rebuked for rejecting key recommendations to strengthen power of Parliament
Hain in attack on his fellow ministers - 13/07/00
Ministers vie for positions in reshuffle - 16/07/00 Prime minister's inner circle jockeying sees Peter want Robin's job, David want Jack's and, of course, Gordon want Tony's
Blair orders Cabinet: stop backstabbing - 16/07/00
Mowlam in call to let Livingstone return to Labour fold - 17/07/00
Inquiry into leaked Blair memo - 17/07/00 Tony Blair fears that the government is regarded as "out of touch" on issues such as crime and asylum-seekers
Ministers round on Blair advisers - 20/07/00 Downing Street braces for further memo leaks as Cabinet ministers express mistrust of advisers and pollsters
Prescott shows contempt for Gould - 22/07/00 Chancellor openly expresses disapproval of Labour pollster whose memos were leaked to journalists
Cabinet agrees to draw a line under euro rift - 22/07/00 Pact designed to heal rift over British entry into the European single currency until after general election
Straw misled us on trial by jury, says Labour MP - 26/07/00
Brown faces TUC battle on minimum wage rise - 25/08/00 the TUC's general council called for the adult rate to be increased from £3.70 an hour to between £4.50 and £5
New Labour was my idea first, says Owen - 29/08/00
Blair rejects father-in-law's criticism - 03/09/00
Mowlam may quit at next election - 04/09/00
Mowlam the 'risk taker' bows out - 04/09/00
Mowlam tells Blair: I've had enough - 05/09/00
People's favourite had the wrong foes - 05/09/00
What she said - 05/09/00
What they said - 05/09/00
Mo had to go: she made it so - 05/09/00
'I was not forced out' - Mowlam - 05/09/00
Blair faces revolt on Lords - 07/09/00
Mowlam 'sidelined by Blair' - 10/09/00
Blair and Brown 'constantly at odds' - 10/09/00
Books reveal cabinet warfare - 11/09/00
Labour faces union revolt on 'grotesque' asylum vouchers - 14/09/00
TUC Conference - Union leader bows out with blast at Blair - 14/09/00
Labour MPs sharpen their knives for Iron Chancellor - 18/09/00
Crisis, what crisis? is Browns' party line - 19/09/00
Labour bans conference reception by hunt group - 19/09/00
Cabinet split over fuel price deal - 19/09/00
Party's two tribes set out on course of mutual destruction - 21/09/00
No 10 'poison squad' collaborated in book - 21/09/00 Downing Street officials confirm participation of senior aides in controversial account of Government practice
Labour split over pensions - 22/09/00
Mowlam wanted NI job for Livingstone - 22/09/00
Feuds wreck Blair's bid to fight back - 25/09/00
Row over nothings - 25/09/00 these feuds are caused by the absence of substantive policies over which to differ
Labour faces pensions showdown - 27/09/00
Labour defeated over pensions - 27/09/00
Blair's Old Labour defeat - 27/09/00
Labour arrogant and divided, says Hague - 06/10/00
Blair broke pledges, says 'green guru' - 16/10/00 Jonathon Porritt
'I am now the system, whether I like it or not' - 16/10/00 Jonathon Porritt
Left prepares challenge to McLeish leadership - 01/11/00
Labour's backbenchers are the masters now - 01/11/00
'We're just mules', says Labour MP - 01/11/00
Canavan set to stay as MP - 03/11/00
Rebels defeated over air sell-off - 15/11/00
Labour vote goes to second ballot - 22/11/00
Number 10 snubs Straw's Britain FC - 29/11/00
Blair faces revolt over £2m gift - 02/01/01
Labour MPs attack big donations - 05/01/01 "democracy for sale to the highest bidders"
Gordon Brown raids the Tory charity box - 14/01/01
Labour caves in over OAP care - 25/01/01
Brown moves fast in the wake of [Mandelson] disaster - 28/01/01
New Labour's broken heart? - 28/01/01 is the apparent rift between two of Tony Blair's closest advisers irreparable?
Mandelson: now the knives go in - 29/01/01 JACK STRAW, the Home Secretary, led a concerted Labour onslaught on Peter Mandelson last night after it was disclosed that he was directly responsible for informing Tony Blair that the Northern Ireland Secretary had been "untruthful"
Crisis for Blair as Mandelson war of words engulfs Cabinet - 29/01/01 with one of them claiming he "had a problem with the truth"
Campbell denies putting the knife into Mandelson - 29/01/01
Pushed out by panic - and a collision of spin - 29/01/01
Father-in-law attacks Blair over pensioners' poverty - 03/02/01
Inquiry 'biased against Mandelson' - 04/02/01 "You have to question Straw's judgment"
Ministers withdraw support as pressure on Vaz grows - 05/02/01
Cook at odds with Blair on Star Wars II - 18/02/01
Labour cuts its losses [on the dome] - 18/02/01 With John Prescott glowering in the chair, the feeling grew that ministers had been summoned merely to rubber stamp a political decision taken at the highest level behind closed doors
Blunkett and Prescott turn on Campbell - 18/02/01 In In strikingly similar broadsides that bore the hallmarks of a co-ordinated rebuke, they criticised the Government's dependence on "spin"
Baghdad raids defended in face of Labour anger - 19/02/01
Cook voices fears over cost of 'Son of Star Wars' - 19/02/01
Thank heavens Tories are no good at 'virtual politics' - 24/04/01 Mr Brown is angry because he believes that a speech of Mr Cook's gave out the "wrong message" (i.e. revealed the truth) about Labour's attitude to race
Brown faces revolt over fund formula - 25/04/01 including his old rivals John Prescott and Peter Mandelson
Brown opposes Blair's 'lively' manifesto plan - 26/04/01
Blair to cull Brown in farm reform - 26/04/01 numerous tensions became apparent between Mr Blair and Nick Brown, the Agriculture Minister, over the foot-and-mouth outbreak
Blair faces revolt over US missile defence - 04/05/01
Knives are out for Brown over Labour campaign fiasco - 13/05/01 Blair is to reduce the influence of Gordon Brown after a bitter internal argument over Labour's poor start to the campaign
So far, Gordon Brown is the election loser - 13/05/01 the Chancellor has lost a battle with the Prime Minister that has been simmering away for most of the past four years and reached boiling point in the run-up to the election
Seven councillors resign from the Labour Party - 15/05/01 They accuse the ruling Labour group of being "in it for themselves"... compounded by the continuous bullying, harassment, physical intimidation and racism... nothing's been done, "not even when we wrote to Tony Blair."
Balls joins Brown for the campaign - 16/05/01 The arrival will further strengthen Mr Brown's influence at Millbank
Woodward to face challenge - 17/05/01 from a party activist who is to run against him as an independent socialist
Brown gets the blame for party's 'invisible' women - 25/05/01 Gordon Brown is being blamed personally by Labour women for presenting the party as "one massive boys' club"
Labour to eject Woodward rebel - 25/05/01 Lord Stoddart of Swindon will be ejected from the party after endorsing a breakaway candidate standing against ex-Tory Shaun Woodward
'No blank cheque' for Brown - 26/05/01 Blair's remarks were seen at Westminster as a deliberate attempt to re-assert his own authority
Jospin reveals 'superstate' plan - 29/05/01 Labour, clearly embarrassed, sought to divert attention... Gordon Brown slapped down Robin Cook, the Foreign Secretary, over the terms of the question to be put in a referendum
Forget the Tories: what about Labour's splits on Europe? - 29/05/01 How Labour has managed to avoid any focus on its own splits for so long is one of the great political mysteries
Blair will have big problems if he wins by a landslide, say Labour politicians - 02/06/01
Reshuffle shows 'cronyism' says Labour MP - 12/06/01
Sacked Hoey puts the boot in - 17/06/01 you'd have thought the government was being run by Fifa
Blunkett: teach marriage is best - 20/06/01
Hattersley accuses 'contemptuous' Blair - 24/06/01 calling for party members to "rise up" to restore Labour's values
'Labour MPs uneasy on NHS plans' - 24/06/01
Blair seeks to cool privatisation row - 25/06/01
Union accuses privatisation 'freaks' - 26/06/01
Blair 'clears air' with unions - 27/06/01
Blair faces a revolt on disabled checks - 05/07/01
Labour councillors join public services revolt - 09/07/01
Labour MPs in London split over Tube part-privatisation plans - 10/07/01
Hattersley attacks ministers' contempt for unions - 11/07/01
Blairite is elected as MPs' 'shop steward' - 11/07/01
Labour ousts the dissenters from select committees - 12/07/01 The rift between the Government and many of its own backbenchers widened yesterday after two senior Labour MPs were sacked from the chairmanships of key parliamentary committees
Labour faces revolt over plans for privatisation - 15/07/01
Labour MPs urged to rebel - 15/07/01 Former Commons speaker Betty Boothroyd was among those who attacked ministers for trying to manipulate parliament
Labour defeated [301 to 232] over committee chairs - 16/07/01 The government has been forced into an humiliating U-turn over its decision to sack independent-minded Labour select committee chairmen... Labour backbenchers restless over the party leadership's alleged "control freakery"
Unions give Blair row warning - 16/07/01
Blair's aims over unions' heads - 16/07/01
Dobson attacks Government over smoking bill - 17/07/01
Labour MPs elect rebel representatives - 18/07/01 to challenge Downing Street's "White House" tendency... another sign of Labour backbenchers' unwillingness to be taken for granted
Hopefuls line up to be new Labour General Secretary - 18/07/01
Brown calls for more trade ties with US - 26/07/01 a further sign of his growing Euroscepticism
James Naughtie's "The Rivals" - 30/08/01 a true account of the relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown
McDonald's Labour deal sparks row - 30/08/01 McDonald's has in effect bought the prime minister's presence... Last month McDonald's was fined £12,400 for illegally employing children
Threat of violence at Labour conference - 03/09/01
Why is Blair so afraid of these books? - 03/09/01 Three political biographies timed to coincide with the Labour conference will rock Brighton and are giving the PM the jitters
Rebellion by Labour MPs forecast on NHS plans - 07/09/01
Blair 'won't hand over to Brown' - 09/09/01
Thwarted Brown 'may quit politics for world finance' - 10/09/01
Jim Naughtie is right: no change at the top - 10/09/01
Blair faces TUC fury on private deals - 10/09/01
Unions give minister frosty reception - 10/09/01 Trade secretary Patricia Hewitt
Kennedy to end Labour link after PR disappointment - 12/09/01
Blair's other war - with Labour - 30/09/01 Mr Blair is still largely out of step with his own party on defence policies and his support for America
Tensions show between unions and Labour - 01/10/01
Union bust-up hits public service rebellion - 02/10/01
Blair is on his own despite his popularity - 10/10/01 It is when domestic support crumbles that the PM's leadership will be tested. It could all go wrong. This could be Gordon Brown's chance
Brown spikes Blair's euro guns - 06/11/01
Euro punch-ups - 06/11/01 between Blair and Brown
Mowlam savages 'presidential' Blair - 16/11/01
Blair lobbies Cabinet to force Brown to spend more on NHS - 18/11/01
'No rift' between Blair and Brown - 18/11/01
Labour rift on NHS tax widens - 30/11/01 Mr Mandelson's remarks reflect growing tension between 10 Downing Street and Numder 11 over the future funding of the health service
Milburn furious at Brown snub on NHS funding - 02/12/01
Blair-Brown 'pact' denied - 02/12/01
Tory leader mocks 'childlike' ministers - 07/12/01 the government "hate each other more than they hate anyone else"
Boris Johnson: If Blair's so good at running the Congo, let him stay there - 10/01/02 Peter Hain has broken off from his war with Straw to launch an attack on Stephen Byers
Anger at major NHS overhaul - 15/01/02 health service unions fear backdoor privatisation of the NHS... Mr Milburn's immediate predecessor as health secretary, Labour's Frank Dobson has also expressed concerns
Labour MPs 'oppose NHS overhaul' - 20/01/02
Old-stager Benn brings the house down - 28/01/02
Union fury after Blair blames 'the wreckers' - 04/02/02
Blair faces union fury over 'privatising NHS by stealth' - 07/02/02
'Unholy war' looming on NHS - 08/02/02
Milburn retreats in 'free NHS' row - 09/02/02
Blair Force One faces Brown veto - 15/02/02
Hattersley calls for Byers to go - 05/03/02
Iraq prompts MP shouting match - 06/03/02
Mowlam blames Brown and Mandelson for Cabinet downfall - 07/03/02 Channel 4 two-part documentary Inside New Labour With Mo Mowlam
Labour leader 'has become a liability' - 08/03/02 allegations of corruption are combining with a failure to deliver
Blair faces a Cabinet revolt over Saddam - 08/03/02
Blair facing revolt over Iraq - 08/03/02
Rory Bremner: When I play Tony, I see what has gone wrong - 10/03/02 Tony Blair has shown an increasing tendency to provoke enemies where there are none. The atmosphere is rife with conflict and mistrust
100 MPs back protest over strikes on Iraq - 15/03/02
Comrades no more? - 15/03/02 TUC chief John Monks described Mr Blair's new alliances as "bloody stupid"
Labour's union relations hit new low - 15/03/02
Mowlam turns up heat on Blair - 17/03/02 she now finds it "harder and harder to defend what the Labour Government is doing"
Short leads backlash against 'reckless' attitude to Saddam - 18/03/02
Brown loses out in power struggle over his five tests - 20/03/02 he was trying to avoid Parliamentary scrutiny
Left-wing MPs want to revive Tribune - 25/03/02
Blair at bay over jobs and rail pay-back - 26/03/02 Mr Blair is "on a yellow card" with many of his MPs... There is speculation within Labour of the possibility of a "new team captain"
Byers makes Blair's Project wobble as Brown stands by - 26/03/02 the Project refers to a conspiracy by a group of friends who set out in the 1980s to stop Labour from behaving in the normal way, so that it could be the party of government... There have been numerous confrontations between the party and the Project, which the Project has won on every important occasion, its victories aided by Mr Blair's power of patronage
Blair told that he has to listen - 27/03/02 He replied with a speech stressing the importance of party discipline
Ranks of critics swelled by those who once quietly toed the party line - 27/03/02
Things to only get grimmer? - 27/03/02
So who are Blair's critics? - 27/03/02
Blair has to take heed of critics, says Prescott - 28/03/02
Post union cuts funds to Labour by third - 29/03/02 the money would be used to fund a campaign against the "privatisation" of the postal service
Fight for the unions, RMT leader tells MPs - 30/03/02 the majority of his members oppose the privatisation of London Undergound
Labour's euro dissidents to break cover - 01/04/02 Labour Against the Euro have been meeting in private for some months but now plan to go public
Treasury blocks Blair's student loans pledge - 04/04/02
Blair is a vain dictator, says school union chief - 05/04/02
Labour fury as Blair backs Bush plan to remove Saddam - 07/04/02
The poker game at Prairie Chapel - 07/04/02 In the Cabinet there are signs of a revolt brewing. Clare Short has hinted that she would resign, while David Blunkett, Jack Straw and Robin Cook have all signalled their misgivings
Blair faces revolt over Iraq - 07/04/02
Blair home to Iraq row - 08/04/02
Blair flies back to Iraq row - 08/04/02
Labour rebels defy Blair on Iraq - 11/04/02
Blair should sack Gordon Brown, says Mo Mowlam - 14/04/02
Mowlam rages against 'smear' - 14/04/02
Mowlam accused over 'revenge' attack on Brown - 15/04/02
I saved judges from Blunkett, says Lord Irvine - 15/04/02
Edmonds: We won't back PFI candidates - 16/04/02 A leading trade unionist has pledged to withdraw union backing from Labour candidates who support the party's policy of using private cash to fund public services
Rooker is told to apologise over 'wrecker Brown' speech - 20/04/02 Mr Blunkett is said to be deeply unhappy with the financial settlement he is being offered by Mr Brown
Mowlam accuses party 'back-stabbers' - 22/04/02 her relationship with Prime Minister Tony Blair deteriorated after she won a standing ovation during his keynote speech at the 1998 Labour Party conference
Mowlam 'pressed to unseat Blair' - 23/04/02 Blair's "entourage" took revenge on her for being more popular than the Prime Minister
Anger over plan to cut benefit for tearaways - 29/04/02
A defensive Rock - 13/05/02 Geoff Hoon, has written a "strongly worded" letter to Jack Straw, arguing that British strategic interests would be threatened by "joint sovereignty"
Brown 'plotted to defeat Cook over reform plan' - 16/05/02 ... then Mr Brown and Mr Cook made surprise appearances at a social event held by the pressure group, Catalyst, which brings together traditional Labour supporters who are increasingly vocal in their criticisms of Mr Blair
We only tinkered, admits Mandelson - 17/05/02 Labour has made little difference to the lives of the poor
Hoon moves to heal rift with Marines - 20/05/02 the Defence Secretary publicly backed the Royal Marines commander in Afghanistan yesterday after a rift opened between the Government and the military over how the mission was being portrayed
Brown cools euro poll fever - 20/05/02
MPs want the right to veto arms sales - 20/05/02
Better late than never, Labour MPs turn against the euro - 24/05/02
All-party MPs' report savages Labour's plan for transport - 26/05/02 The Government's entire transport strategy is savaged today in a report by a Labour-dominated committee of MPs
Boateng is first black Cabinet minister - 30/05/02 supporters of Mr Brown, the Chancellor, saw the new line-up as a gain for his camp
Prescott says Gwyneth Dunwoody 'put knife in Byers' - 31/05/02 while modestly playing down his own responsibility for the 10-year transport plan, which was described by the committee as incoherent and wrong!
Byers 'knifed in back' says Prescott - 31/05/02
Minister slams Desmond's donation - 31/05/02 Tessa Jowell believes that Labour had undermined its position on gender equality by accepting money from a porn magazine publisher
Jowell criticises Desmond donation - 31/05/02
Blair accused of putting youth first in promotions - 04/06/02
Darling 'at odds with No10' - 04/06/02 there is now "great confusion" about who was in charge of transport policy
Blair is worst PM, says Labour MP - 07/06/02 Mr Dalyell condemned Mr Blair's "presidential" style
Kaufman: Special advisers should be 'sacked' - 08/06/02
MP alleges bid to oust her - 09/06/02
Short urges 'end of spin culture' - 10/06/02
Tax credits pushing more into benefits trap, says Field - 11/06/02
Gordon Brown's invention: a form of permanent serfdom - 11/06/02 By Frank Field
Harman joins Desmond attack - 12/06/02 Blair is facing a growing backlash from Labour women for accepting a donation from Richard Desmond, publisher of several pornographic magazines
Cook joins call to cut down on spinning - 13/06/02 contrasting the "packaging" favoured by Tony Blair with the "honesty" of his predecessor, the late John Smith
Whips attempt to 'silence' key critic Dunwoody - 13/06/02 the Labour MP blamed for contributing to Stephen Byers's downfall
Will Blair's own goals hand the prize to the Chancellor? - 14/06/02 The Iron Chancellor, the Macavity of politics, never at the scene of the crime, has deliberately dissociated himself from the rows over spin and sleaze
The knives are out for Campbell - 14/06/02 but according to Lord Hattersley, Mr Blair is "psychologically dependent" on Mr Campbell
I won't go quietly, says Dunwoody - 14/06/02
Now is the time to put the politics back into politics - 17/06/02 By Mark Seddon of the Labour Party
Brown softens reshuffle blow - 18/06/02 ex-ministers sacked by Tony Blair in last month's government reshuffle have found themselves the target of a charm offensive by Gordon Brown
Cabinet rift over asylum crackdown - 18/06/02
Cabinet rift over spending review - 12/07/02
Blair's dawning of discontent - 17/07/02
Left-winger claims shock union victory - 17/07/02 Derek Simpson expects to take over (from Tony's crony Sir Ken Jackson) as joint general secretary of Amicus
The unions show their shocking ingratitude - 21/07/02 Strikes across the country, rubbish uncollected, schools closed, London transport in chaos, isn't it great to have Labour back in power?.. there is a dangerous mood of militancy among the trade unions
Labour rejects Livingstone - 23/07/02
Warning to Blair over Iraq - 26/07/02
Unions tell Blair: no war on Iraq - 31/07/02
Storm brewing for Blair over Iraq - 09/08/02 Tony Blair faces growing signs of dismay on his backbenches and in the broader Labour movement over possible involvement in a US-led attack on Iraq
Meacher wins his battle with No 10 to attend Earth Summit - 09/08/02
Unions primed for war opposition - 09/08/02
Kaufman warns of revolt over Iraq - 15/08/02
Blair 'blocking' Iraq debate - 16/08/02
Cabinet at war over Iraq? - 19/08/02
Iraq to dominate Labour conference - 19/08/02
Blair's sombre return - 29/08/02
Opposition growing to Iraq attack - 30/08/02
PM home to take up cudgels over Iraq - 03/09/02
'Honeymoon over', unions warn Blair - 05/09/02 Tensions with the government are mounting over public services, pensions and pay
Labour MPs 'oppose Iraq war' - 06/09/02
Union leader shuns Blair - 07/09/02 and speaks out against the Euro
Blair faces rough ride over Iraq - 08/09/02
Blair rebuffed by militant TUC - 09/09/02 The TUC conference is building to be one of the most acrimonious for years
Unions warned over 'self-indulgence' - 10/09/02
Clinton defends Blair on Iraq - 10/09/02 risking allegations of meddling in internal Labour politics
Give peace a chance on Iraq, Blair is told by TUC leaders - 10/09/02
Labour attacks Blair's 'gung-ho' war plan - 15/09/02
An inconsistent statement - 25/09/02 The war on terror has evidently taken second place to a campaign with less obvious incitement to Labour rebellion
MPs who rebelled over Iraq - 25/09/02
Mandelson: I made too many enemies - 27/09/02
Revellers given a glimpse of Blair-land - 30/09/02 Tony Blair has never needed to take any notice of his party but now he does
Blair denies rift with Brown - 03/10/02
Blair-Brown rift on show again - 02/12/02
Prescott rebukes Short for sniping - 31/12/02
Cabinet ministers in clash over Iraq - 08/01/03
Who's pressing Blair against war - 15/01/03
War doubts 'should be heeded' - 19/01/03
Labour rebels 'told to toe the line' - 21/01/03
Cook opposes Blair over Lords - 02/02/03
Revolt threat over Irvine pay rise - 08/02/03
Blair's bloody nose - 26/02/03
Cook plays down troops row - 30/03/03
Blair faces fresh hospital revolt - 04/04/03
'Inquiry' into Short's absence - 09/05/03
Clare Short quits post over Iraq - 12/05/03
Analysis: Blair hurt by Short? - 12/05/03
Short speaking out - 12/05/03
Labour friends desert Short after attack on Blair - 14/05/03
Mowlam publicly supports Short - 18/05/03
Blair's euro peace pact unravels as Brown tries to seize control - 19/05/03
Modernisers 'killing' Labour - 20/05/03
Amos ditches Clare Short report at cost of £29,000 - 20/05/03
Blair 'to blame for euro splits' - 23/05/03 John Major: Blair and Brown are circling one another like two black widow spiders wondering whether they are prepared to mate, and they can't seem to make up their minds
Brown feud with Blair 'at heart of euro crisis' - 24/05/03
Byers warning over Blair reforms - 26/05/03
Iraq weapons row intensifies - 01/06/03
Short warns of Baghdad disaster - 01/06/03
Blair returns to growing unrest - 03/06/03 Robin Cook, who resigned over the war, said the government had clearly sent troops into battle "on the basis of a mistake" and an inquiry should be held
The night that power was on the menu - 08/06/03
Blair takes the gloves off - 12/06/03
Blair reshuffle under fire - 13/06/03 Labour MP Bob Marshall-Andrews said that a major constitutional change should undergo extensive consultation instead of being "botched"
Tempers fray over reshuffle - 13/06/03
Weakened constitution - 14/06/03 many of the sharpest criticisms have come from Labour politicians
Iraq dossier was 'spectacular own goal', says Cook - 17/06/03
Ex-ministers attack weapons claims - 17/06/03 Robin Cook has accused Tony Blair's government of "not presenting the whole picture" - and Clare Short accused Mr Blair of a "series of half truths, exaggerations, reassurances that weren't the case" in the run-up to war
Blair slaps down Hain on tax - 20/06/03
Blair acting like president creates unrest, says Meacher - 23/06/03 Downing Street claimed Mr Meacher, 63, had "resigned". In an interview on GMTV's Sunday Programme, he made clear he had been sacked
Ministers past and present continue to be a taxing problem for Blair - 23/06/03 Mr Blair ordered Mr Hain to tear up a speech calling for a national debate on taxation
Top-up fees vote defeated - 23/06/03
Rebel MPs vow to kill health and fees Bills - 25/06/03
New clash in weapons inquiry - 27/06/03 Robin Cook: "we were told things as a justification for war which have plainly turned out to be wrong"
Labour could reopen women row - 27/06/03
Left-wingers warn of Labour 'failure' - 05/07/03
No gloating as Blair overtakes Attlee's record - 02/08/03 but he is facing a winter of discontent
Blair's 'abuse of power' led to Kelly death, says Short - 07/09/03
No 10 is silent on Clare Short's Kelly outburst - 08/09/03
Benn meets up with old comrades - 09/09/03 "Labour's conference is the only conference where they search your bags, not for bombs but for socialist literature"
Left thinkers condemn Labour outlook - 15/09/03
Labour 'drifting' says Milburn - 26/09/03
Blair set for bare knuckle fight - 28/09/03
Brown appeals to Labour's 'soul' - 29/09/03 the chancellor acknowledged that there were doubts about the party's direction
Do Labour faithful still back Blair? - 29/09/03
MPs criticise lack of Iraq vote - 29/09/03
Analysis: Blair ducks war vote - 29/09/03 this has only served to further inflame the fury of the anti-war movement who are claiming that the prime minister is trying to shut down all dissent
An alternative leader? - 29/09/03 Gordon Brown
Tense encounter for Labour heavyweights - 29/09/03
Reading between the lines - 30/09/03
Hoon urges Labour unity on Iraq - 01/10/03 delegates accused Prime Minister Tony Blair of "lying" about the case for war as the continuing splits on the conflict were laid bare
Hoon receives muted response - 01/10/03 As Geoff Hoon spoke to Labour conference there was almost a sense of uneasy embarrassment hanging in the air
Blair defeated over health plans - 01/10/03
Labour conference 'like Nuremberg' - 01/10/03
Blair-Brown row stories 'blahtastic' - 05/11/03 but see tomorrow's story:
Brown admits Blair NEC snub - 06/11/03
Cook explains Hitler comparison - 25/11/03
Rebel MPs shun tuition compromise - 30/11/03
Blair faces student fees grilling - 02/12/03 More than 140 Labour MPs have criticised plans to allow universities almost to triple the amount students are charged for their tuition
Q&A: Blair's future - 05/12/03 There are reports of Labour MPs openly questioning Tony Blair's future
Blunkett top-up fee revolt denied - 05/12/03
Brown leads protests against Livingstone's return to Labour fold - 16/12/03
Top-up rebels have a case, admits Prescott - 22/12/03
Prescott plea to Labour rebels - 02/01/04
Blunkett warns top-up fees rebels - 04/01/04
Blair woos top-up fees rebels - 14/01/04
Cook buries hatchet to back Brown - 17/01/04 Straw hovering around too
Canny cook lives on - 17/01/04
'I have changed my mind on Blair: he's worse than I thought' - 18/01/04 Tam Dalyell, the veteran Labour MP, says Tony Blair is the "worst Prime Minister" of the eight he has known
Lukewarm Hain fails to defend embattled Hoon - 19/01/04
Ministers plot fees vote tactics - 24/01/04
Rebel MP finds the price of dissent is £600 - 24/01/04
Blair must admit error over Iraqi weapons, Cook says - 24/01/04
Top-up fee rebels want to get rid of Tony, says Clarke - 25/01/04
This is not what Mr Blair meant by a place in history - 25/01/04 What has driven the Labour Party mad?
Ron Davies quits Labour Party - 25/01/04
Analysis: Blair's fees escape - 27/01/04
The Labour rebels on tuition fees - 27/01/04 List of the 72 Labour MPs who voted against government plans for tuition fees
Top-up fee rebels 'to fight on' - 28/01/04
RMT union to vote on Labour links - 06/02/04 Several branches of the Fire Brigades Union are also calling for disaffiliation from Labour
'No UK limits' on new EU members - 09/02/04 Blunkett contradicts Blair
Party votes out Reading MP - 22/02/04 Mrs Griffiths is pro-European and a Blair loyalist - hopefully the first of many to be deselected by the Labour grass roots
Blair says Short 'irresponsible' - 26/02/04
Blunkett doubts over Short claims - 27/02/04
Labour won't make Short 'martyr' - 28/02/04
Short attacks top civil servant - 29/02/04
Labour chief whip calls in Short - 04/03/04
Healey calls for Blair to retire - 05/03/04
Hain says Labour ignores members - 10/03/04
End Labour fights, urges Prescott - 14/03/04
Fresh revolt over tuition fees - 24/03/04
Rebels step up top-up fee battle - 30/03/04
Lines drawn for top-up fee D-Day - 31/03/04 A fresh rebellion by Labour MPs is expected
Rebels lose top-up fee protest - 31/03/04
Top-up fees rebellion fails as Bill is passed with majority of 28 - 01/04/04
Blair 'faces Europe rebellion' - 25/04/04
Blair's future dominates Westminster - 26/04/04
Blair faces leadership revolt as abuse crisis deepens 12/05/04 The sense that Mr Blair was becoming dangerously isolated was reinforced when Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, used far stronger language than the Prime Minister to condemn the way US soldiers had abused Iraqi detainees
Blair denies being a 'liability' - 14/05/04
Prescott reveals Blair-Brown rift - 15/05/04
Blair's leadership back on menu - 17/05/04
Prescott fuels Blair speculation - 26/05/04
No 10 turns on ex-Blair adviser - 28/06/04
Labour's membership at new low - 29/06/04
Labour members' challenge to PM - 03/07/04
Mandelson gives backing to Brown - 04/07/04
Uproar in Labour ranks over Mandelson comeback - 24/07/04
Labour group urges new direction - 09/08/04 "Iraq is Blair's poll tax, a breach of trust, demonstration of arrogance and strategic blunder"
Brown plays down 'cabinet split' - 10/09/04
Labour leadership suffers defeat - 26/09/04
Unions defeat Labour on rail vote - 27/09/04
Blair's new unity challenge - 28/09/04
Labour MPs attack Blair on Iraq - 12/10/04
Labour faces gambling rebellion - 01/11/04
'End Brown rift' Mandelson urges - 21/11/04
Can Peter and Gordon ever make up? - 25/11/04
Brown directs swipe at Mandelson - 02/12/04
Warning on Blair-Brown 'battles' - 02/12/04
Cabinet anger at Brown cash raid - 03/12/04
Clarke faces ID cards rebellion - 20/12/04
Blair ponders snap poll as Brown faces a black hole - 21/12/04
Blair plots to smash Brown's Treasury powerbase - 02/01/05
Prime Minister accused of 'obscene' power struggle - 03/01/04
Chancellor fears cold shoulder as Blair rift increases - 06/01/05
Blair leaves Chancellor's job in doubt - 07/01/05
Only the naive can't see who is in charge - 07/01/05 The combination of an aggrieved and restive Chancellor is proving ever more difficult for Mr Blair to handle
Brown tours north amid rift claim - 07/01/05
Brown may be sacked in Blair reshuffle - 08/01/05
Blair and Brown fight for office, not principle - 08/01/05
The Iron Chancellor puts on his velvet gloves and prepares for Life After Blair - 08/01/05
'There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe' - 09/01/05
Divided they fall - 09/01/05 None of this reflects well on Mr Blair
Robert Peston: My book shows what Brown really wants - 09/01/05
Not even a tsunami can stop the Blair-Brown feud - 09/01/05
Blair dismisses quit claim report - 09/01/05
Brown in appeal for Labour unity - 09/01/05
Could rivalry overshadow election? - 09/01/05
Stop the squabbling, MPs tell Blair and Brown - 11/01/05
Blair and Brown still in headlines - 11/01/05
Blair and Brown criticised by MPs - 11/01/05
Labour seeks to quell feud talk - 11/01/05
Blair to face MPs amid feud talk - 12/01/05
Revealed: how Blair tried to trade his job for euro entry - 16/01/05
Blair says he doesn't do deals over his job. Ha! - 16/01/05
Union leader backs Brown for PM - 18/01/05
Brown fury at Milburn roadshow - 27/02/05 the row over who runs the campaign is beginning to spill into the open
Brown 'could stay as chancellor' - 06/04/05
Prescott lashes out at 'John bloody Birt' - 24/04/05
Labour rebels target Blair - 06/05/05
Labour MPs call on Blair to quit - 08/05/05
Blair courts fresh controversy with peerage and job for aide - 10/05/05 He is "furious" over leaks about chaotic scenes in No 10 the day after the election, when John Prescott and Charles Clarke upset his plans by blocking proposed moves
A Prime Minister in office, but not in power - 10/05/05
Blair under fire over reshuffle - 10/05/05
Blair is facing backbench critics - 11/05/06
Blair outlines plans to new team - 12/05/05
Blair showdown with the Left 'not far away' - 17/05/05
Brown will keep my legacy - Blair - 16/09/05
Blair attacks Labour's 'old left' - 15/10/05
Short challenges Blair war powers - 21/10/05
Blair defiant as leading MPs give him a rough ride - 23/11/05
Voters lose faith in Blair as Tories rise again - 25/11/05
Just a fifth of his MPs back Blair on schools - 04/12/05
Interview: Peter Kilfoyle - 05/12/05
No 10 hints at deal with rebels to save education reforms - 15/12/05
Prescott in blow to school reform - 18/12/05
Mandelson: Labour needs 'unity' - 21/12/05 Some commentators suggest Mr Blair sees Mr Cameron as more of a suitable successor than Chancellor Gordon Brown
Blair should quit now says Healey - 26/02/06
Clarke targets Labour treasurer - 21/03/06
The fallout from Blair's 'mistake' - 27/03/06
Blair will be gone by Christmas, say friends - 01/04/06
Blair-Brown feud 'ruining Labour' - 09/04/06
Union leader critical of Labour - 10/04/06
Blair must tell us when he's going, say mutinous MPs - 28/04/06
Pitfalls ahead - 28/04/06
Blair's reshuffle taunts Brown - 05/05/06
Blair 'target of Old Labour coup' - 07/05/06
Full text: Labour MPs' letter - 07/05/06
Blair faces MPs on departure call - 08/05/06
Why Blair Axed His Foreign Secretary - 08/05/06
Prescott warns MPs against 'war' - 09/05/06
What's Gone Wrong for Britain's Tony Blair - 11/05/06
Brown 'will face PM challengers' - 12/05/06
Rebels leave Blair to rely on Tory support - 25/05/06
Labour MPs up Prescott pressure - 29/05/06
Smith wants Blair to quit in 2007 - 09/06/06
Clarke tells of anger at sacking - 26/06/06
Left challenge could flush out Blairites - 13/07/06
Labour MP planning leadership bid - 13/07/06
No 10 'rebuffed ceasefire call' - 01/08/06
Heckler voted on to Labour's NEC - 03/08/06
Blair and Reid 'dominating' media - 19/08/06 Reid may be raising his profile ahead of a possible leadership challenge
Beckett suffers Labour defections - 25/08/06 37 Labour members in Mrs Beckett's Derby South constituency have defected to the Liberals
Blair 'causing party uncertainty' - 26/08/06
Blair refuses to name exit date - 31/08/06
Blair exasperated with 'speculators' - 31/08/06
Blair 'must heed Thatcher lesson' - 01/09/06
MPs' letter demands Blair's exit - 04/09/06
PM gone within year, allies say - 05/09/06
Leaked Blair memo: key quotes - 05/09/06
Blair faces wave of resignations - 06/09/06
In full: Tom Watson's resignation - 06/09/06
In full: Tony Blair letter to Tom Watson - 06/09/06
In full: Khalid Mahmood's resignation - 06/09/06
Will Blair and Brown get their way? - 06/09/06
The long goodbye - 06/09/06
Time runs out for a master escapologist - 06/09/06
Blair's leadership goes into meltdown - 07/09/06
In full: Tony Blair statement - 07/09/06
In full: Gordon Brown statement - 07/09/06
Blair statement: reaction - 07/09/06
Brownites v Blairites - the full story - 07/09/06
Blair clings to the wreckage - 08/09/06
Clarke blasts 'stupid' Brown - 08/09/06
Left-winger throws hat into ring - 08/09/06
Clarke reignites leadership row - 08/09/06
Brown's turn to feel the heat - 08/09/06
Clarke attack on Brown 'the deluded control freak' - 09/09/06 Gordon Brown faced growing anger on the Left and Right of the Labour Party last night as senior figures questioned his suitability to become prime minister
Clarke on Brown: he lacks courage and vision, he's delusional and a control freak - 09/09/06
Brown offers challenge to critics - 09/09/06
Blair calls for halt to sniping - 09/09/06
Blair calls for end to infighting - 09/09/06
Brown fights back against critics - 10/09/06
Leadership contest welcome - 10/09/06
Brown's dream in danger as unions and MPs lose faith - 11/09/06
Chancellor's smug tone implies he's already won - 11/09/06
Blair's 'brutal truth' to unions - 12/09/06
Labour deputy race gathers pace - 12/09/06
Johnson's swipe at Brown on poverty - 14/09/06
Milburn looks to leadership - 14/09/06
Blair must go sooner, says Hoon - 15/09/06
Poll blow for Brown as Blair refuses to back him - 25/09/06
Cherie denies Brown 'liar' attack - 26/09/06
Mandelson admits Labour 'fissure' - 26/09/06
Showman Blair steals the spotlight from Brown - 27/09/06
Sketch: The great egotist belittles Brown's leadership bid - 27/09/06
How do you solve a problem like Cherie? - 27/09/06
Early-riser Mandelson sticks breakfast knife into Brown - 27/09/06
Blair may stay until next summer - 27/09/06 There was angry heckling when the conference chairman turned off Mr Prentis' microphone
Labour defeated over health plans - 27/09/06
Cruddas doubts things are better - 27/09/06
Blairites give Brown six months to prove he has got what it takes - 28/09/06
Labour conference at-a-glance - 28/09/06
Blair leaves Straw isolated in row over veils - 07/10/06
Clare Short resigns as Labour MP - 20/10/06
Reid denies 'surrender' to Brown - 05/11/06
How things stand on Blair succession - 06/11/06
Who is the man to KO Cameron? - 15/11/06 both Gordon Brown and John Reid thought they had Blair's endorsement as his successor
Minister 'attacks Iraq mistake' - 17/11/06
Brown's Downing St 'humbler, more austere' - 30/12/06 Blair supports like Prescott, Hutton, Jowell, Armstrong and Lord Falconer will be history
Brown sees off policy challenge from Blairites - 06/01/07
Byers sounds 'warning' to Brown - 08/01/07
Move on from Blair, Labour urged - 04/02/07
Blair revolt gathers pace - 03/02/07
Maternity crisis: ministers who won't toe line - 07/02/07 half the Cabinet is revolting!
Brown will halt reform says Blair - 11/02/07
Blears launches deputy leader bid - 24/02/07
Hello, Gordon here. Now start dishing the dirt - 24/02/07 Rory Bremner tricked a Cabinet minister into making indiscreet remarks about his Government colleagues by pretending to be Gordon Brown
Beckett red-faced as Bremner turns Brown - 25/02/07 Rory goes fishing and catches a trout
Beckett tricked by Bremner hoax - 25/02/07 When Bremner, as Brown, suggested to her that Patricia Hewitt was not up to the job, she allegedly said: "That's what a lot of people have been saying to me"
Beckett call on Labour leadership - 18/03/07
Brown can't sack me - Mandelson - 22/03/07
Brown needs a contest - Mandelson - 23/03/07
Beckett warns Miliband not to run - 31/03/07
Reid will back Miliband for PM to block Brown - 07/04/07
Britain: the new Belgium - 05/05/07 our system is now more Continental - and dysfunctional - than ever
Brown facing McDonnell challenge - 14/05/07
Six in race to be Brown's deputy - 17/05/07
Johnson slams Hodge 'BNP' remarks - 24/05/07
Hain says Labour 'like reserves' - 27/05/07 Peter Hain has criticised the government's handling of the NHS and claimed: "We've been playing like the reserves."
MP shortlists divide candidates - 31/05/07
Brown attacks blunders over war in Iraq - 12/06/07
Your big idea won't work, Hewitt warns Brown - 14/06/07
Cabinet split over Rushdie knighthood - 21/06/07
EU referendum revolt among Labour MPs - 26/07/07
Ex-minister demands EU referendum - 26/07/07
Tony Blair coup MPs handed government jobs - 08/09/07
Gordon Brown hit by Tory poll surge - 14/10/07 disgruntled supporters of Tony Blair are preparing a campaign of attacks on Mr Brown's premiership and his "lack of vision"
Labour big guns set to turn on Gordon Brown - 14/10/07
David Miliband demands apology from senior Labour MP for Hitler jibe - 17/10/07 the Labour MP went on to insist that Miliband was being evasive about what were obviously major constitutional changes
Gordon Brown and Blair 'fought to the end' - 21/10/07
Blair admits tensions with Brown - 18/11/07
Peter Mandelson laments PM's 'EU dithering' - 15/12/07
David Miliband dismisses Gordon Brown rift - 16/12/07
Callaghan 'asked Benn to resign' - 28/12/07
Blairite offers PM olive branch - 30/12/07 It's Byers! The little toady is trying to rehabilitate himself
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