16. Interview, Number 10 official
17. Interviews, Number 10 officials
18. Interview, Brown aide
19. Private information
20. Interview, Brown aide
21. Interview, Brown aide
22. Interview, senior civil servant
23. Interview, Brown aide
24. Interview, Brown aide
25. Interview, senior civil servant
26. Interview, civil servant
27. Interview, Labour peer
28. Interview, Cabinet minister
29. Interview, civil servant
30. Interview, civil servant
31. Interview, senior civil servant
32. Interviews, Number 10 officials
33. Interview, Cabinet minister
34. Gordon Brown, ‘On Liberty’, speech at University of Westminster, London, 29 October 2007
35. Hansard, 3 July 2007
36. Interview, Sue Cameron
37. Interview, minister
38. Interview, Gordon Brown
39. Interview, Shami Chakrabati
40. See Chapter 20
41. Interview, Jon Cruddas
42. Today, BBC Radio 4, 14 November 2007
43. Interview, Alan West
44. Interview, Alan West
45. Interview, Brown aide
46. Interview, senior civil servant
47. Interview, Privy Counsellor
48. Interview, Brown aide
49. Interview, Labour MP
50. Interview, Labour peer
51. Interview, Brown aide
52. Interviews, Number 10 officials
53. Interviews, Number 10 officials
54. Interviews, Number 10 officials
55. Interviews, Number 10 officials and senior civil servants
56. Interviews, Neil Kinnock and others
57. Private interview
58. Peter Mandelson, Alcuin Lecture, Cambridge, 8 February 2008
59. Interview, Brown aide
60. Interview, Peter Mandelson
61. Interview, minister
62. Interview, Philip Gould
63. Interview, Brown aide
64. BBC News, 27 April 2008
65. Servants of the People, Chapter 12
66. Conversation, Cabinet minister
67. Interview, Brown aide
68. Interview, Brown aide
69. Private information
33. Assassins in the Shadows
1. Hamlet, Act III, scene ii
2. ‘Cameron starts to look like a real leader’, Daily Mail, 17 July 2008
3. Interviews, Brown inner circle
4. John Mason, speech at Tollcross Leisure Centre, Glasgow, 25 July 2008
5. Conversation, former Cabinet minister
6. BBC News, 28 July 2008
7. Conversation, Cabinet minister
8. Interview, Cabinet minister
9. Interview, minister
10. Barack Obama, remarks in Downing Street, 26 July 2008
11. Interview, Cabinet minister
12. Conversation, former Cabinet minister
13. Conversation, Cabinet minister
14. Interview, Peter Mandelson
15. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
16. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
17. Interview, Cabinet minister
18. Interviews, Cabinet ministers, former ministers and Labour MPs
19. David Miliband, ‘A platform of change’, Guardian, 30 July 2008
20. Conversation, Miliband ally
21. Interview, Brown aide
22. Interview, Brown aide
23. Joe Murphy and Nicholas Cecil, ‘Brown’s furious attack on “immature” Miliband’, Evening Standard, 30 July 2008; Macer Hall and Gabriel Milland, ‘Brown furious over Miliband “treachery” ’, Daily Express, 31 July 2008; Andy McSmith, James Macintyre and Nigel Morris, ‘The smile of an assassin?’, Independent, 31 July 2008
24. Jeremy Vine Show, BBC Radio 2, 31 July 2008
25. Interview, Cabinet minister
26. Interview, former Cabinet minister
27. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
28. Interview, Murray Elder
29. Interview, Mariella Frostrup
30. Simon Walters, ‘Now will they let Gordon play?’, Mail on Sunday, 18 June 2006
31. Private information
32. Interview, Brown aide
33. Interview, Brown inner circle
34. Interview, Number 10 official
35. Interviews, ministers and officials
36. Interview, Brown inner circle
37. Interview, Cabinet minister
38. Interviews, Treasury officials
39. Interview, Bank of England official
40. Interview, Number 10 official
41. Interview, Decca Aitkenhead
42. Decca Aitkenhead, ‘Storm Warning’, Guardian Weekend, 30 August 2008
43. Interview, Decca Aitkenhead
44. Decca Aitkenhead, ‘Storm Warning’, Guardian Weekend, 30 August 2008
45. Andrew Porter, ‘Chancellor paints bleak picture’, Daily Telegraph, 30 August 2008
46. Interview, Alistair Darling
47. Interviews, Treasury officials
48. BBC News, 30 August 2008
49. Interview, Nick Cohen
50. Interview, Treasury official
51. The Times, 1 September 2008
52. Interview, Treasury official
53. Private interview
54. Interview, Number 10 official
55. Interview, Cabinet minister
56. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
57. Interview, Brown inner circle
58. Interviews, senior civil servants
59. Interview, Brown aide
60. Interview, Brown aide
61. Ivan Lewis, ‘We should tax the rich, not the middle class’, Sunday Times, 17 August 2008
62. Ian Kirby and Sophy Ridge, ‘Txt pest shame of Minister’, News of the World, 7 September 2008
63. Glen Owen, ‘Minister: “I’m sorry for sending suggestive texts to girl aide, 24” ’, Mail on Sunday, 7 September 2008
64. Interview, minister
65. Toby Helm, ‘Vicious attack deepens Labour rift’, Observer, 7 September 2008
66. Nick Cohen, ‘Call off your Mafioso aides, Mr Brown’, Observer, 14 September 2008
67. Interview, Number 10 official
68. Interview, Cabinet minister
69. New Statesman, 4 September 2008
70. Today, BBC Radio 4, 4 September 2008
71. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
72. Simon McGee and Brendan Carlin, ‘The biggest question’, Mail on Sunday, 14 September 2008
73. Interview, Cabinet minister
74. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and former Cabinet ministers
75. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
76. Newsnight, BBC2, 16 September 2008
77. Barry Gardiner, ‘Brown’s blown it’, Sunday Times, 14 September 2008
78. Patrick Wintour, ‘Rebels try to oust Brown’, Guardian, 16 September 2008
79. Philip Webster, ‘Minister quits in Brown challenge’, The Times, 17 September 2008
80. Interviews, Number 10 officials
81. Patrick Wintour and Allegra Stratton, ‘Ministers fuel talk of anti-Brown challenge’, Guardian, 15 September 2008
82. Interview, Cabinet minister
83. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
84. Anne McElvoy and Joe Murphy, ‘Brown humiliated as Ministers ignore him’, Evening Standard, 17 September 2008
85. Patrick Wintour, ‘Cabinet fury over complacency undermines PM’, Guardian, 18 September 2008
86. Interview, Brown aide
87. Interview, former Cabinet minister
88. Interview, former Cabinet minister
89. Interview, Frank Field
90. World at One, BBC Radio 4, 16 September 2008
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p; 91. BBC News, 16 September 2008
92. See Chapter 34
93. Interview, Cabinet minister
94. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
95. Interview, Labour MP
96. Interview, Brown aide
97. Interview, Brown inner circle
98. Gordon Brown, speech to Labour conference, Manchester, 23 September 2008
99. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
100. Philip Webster, ‘Brown digs in with attack on the novices’, The Times, 24 September 2008
101. BBC News, 23 September 2008
102. New Statesman, 29 September 2008
103. Interviews and conversations, Cabinet ministers and former Cabinet ministers
104. Interview, Peter Mandelson
105. Interview, Peter Mandelson
106. Interview, friend of Peter Mandelson
107. Peter Mandelson, remarks in Downing Street, 3 October 2008
108. An exception is Donald Macintyre, Mandelson’s biographer, who had long ago suggested it might happen
109. Conversation, Cabinet minister; Daily Mail, 4 October 2008
110. ‘Gambling on Mandelson’, Guardian, 4 October 2008
111. ‘Mandelson rises from political dead’, Financial Times, 4 October 2008
112. Gordon Brown, Number 10 news conference, 3 October 2008
113. Conversation, Cabinet minister
114. Conversation, Cabinet minister
115. Interview, James Purnell
116. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
117. Conversation, Cabinet minister
118. Interview, Cabinet minister
119. Interview, minister
34. The Great Escape
1. Interview, minister
2. Conversation, Cabinet minister
3. Interview, Alistair Darling
4. Interview, John Gieve
5. Interviews, Alistair Darling and Treasury officials
6. James Stewart, ‘Eight Days’, New Yorker, 21 September 2009
7. Interview, Alistair Darling
8. Interview, Alistair Darling
9. Interviews, Treasury officials
10. Interview, John Gieve
11. Interview, John Eatwell
12. Interview, Steve Robson
13. Interview, John Gieve
14. Interview, John Eatwell
15. Interview, Alistair Darling
16. Interview, Chairman of retail bank
17. Interview, Alistair Darling
18. Siobhan Kennedy, The Times, 22 September 2008
19. Interview, Alistair Darling
20. Interview, senior Treasury official
21. Interview, Chairman of retail bank
22. The Banking Act 2008
23. Interview, senior Treasury official
24. BBC News, 1 October 2008
25. Interview, Alistair Darling
26. Interview, senior civil servant
27. Interview, Alistair Darling
28. Interview, minister
29. Interviews, ministers
30. Interviews, ministers and officials
31. Andrew Porter, ‘Brown Air’, www.telegraph.co.uk, 24 September 2008
32. Gordon Brown, speech to UN General Assembly, New York, 25 September 2008
33. Conversation, Cabinet minister
34. Interview, senior civil servants and ministers
35. Interview, Number 10 official
36. Interviews, ministers and officials
37. Interview, senior Treasury official
38. Peter Thal Larsen, ‘Goodwin’s undoing’, Financial Times, 25 February 2009
39. Interview, John Eatwell
40. Interview, George Osborne
41. Interview, Peter Mandelson
42. Interview, minister
43. Interview, Alistair Darling
44. Interview, Paul Myners
45. Interviews, ministers and officials
46. Interviews, Treasury officials
47. Interview, senior Treasury official
48. Interview, Chairman of retail bank
49. Interview, Alistair Darling
50. Interview, Treasury official
51. Interview, John Gieve
52. Interview, Paul Myners
53. Interview, Alistair Darling
54. Interviews, Nick Cohen and Alistair Darling
55. Interviews, ministers and Number 10 officials
56. Peston’s Picks, www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston, 0700, 7 October 2008
57. Interview, Chairman of retail bank
58. Interview, senior Treasury official
59. Interview, Chairman of retail bank
60. Interview, Chairman of retail bank
61. Interviews, Treasury officials
62. Interviews, Treasury officials
63. Interview, Christine Lagarde
64. Interview, Christine Lagarde
65. Interview, Alistair Darling
66. Interviews, Treasury officials
67. Interviews, Alistair Darling and others
68. Interviews, ministers and officials
69. Interview, senior civil servant
70. Interview, Paul Myners
71. Interview, senior Treasury official
72. Interview, John Gieve
73. Interview, senior Treasury official
74. Interviews, ministers and officials
75. Interview, Alistair Darling
76. Interview, senior Treasury official
77. Interview, John Gieve
78. Interview, Treasury official
79. Interview, Treasury official
80. The Love of Money, BBC2, 24 September 2009
81. Interviews, ministers and Number 10 officials
82. The Love of Money, BBC2, 24 September 2009
83. Interview, minister
84. Interview, Paul Myners
85. Gordon Brown, news conference, Number 10, 8 October 2008
86. Interviews, Number 10 and Treasury officials
87. Interviews, Bank of England and Number 10 officials
88. Hansard, 8 October 2008
89. Gordon Brown, ad lib at Powerlist 2008 dinner, Foreign Office, London, 8 October 2008
90. Interview, minister
91. Interviews, ministers and officials
92. Reuters, 11 October 2008
93. Interview, Paul Myners
94. Gordon Brown, Number 10 Podcast, 10 October 2008
95. Interview, John Gieve
96. Interview, Alistair Darling
97. Interviews, senior Treasury officials
98. Interview, John Eatwell
99. Interview, Alistair Darling
100. Interview, Paul Myners
101. Interview, John Gieve
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