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83. Newsnight, BBC2, 2 April 2009
84. ‘Bankers rage at G20 “witch hunt” against bonuses and buccaneers’, Guardian, 4 April 2009
85. Independent, 4 April 2009
86. Interview, Brown aide
87. Conversation, member of Shadow Cabinet
88. Interview, Mark Malloch-Brown
89. Interview, Philip Gould
90. Tristram Hunt, Guardian, 4 April 2009
91. The Times, 3 April 2009
92. Daily Telegraph, 3 April 2009
93. Financial Times, 3 April 2009
94. Washington Post, 3 April 2009
95. Le Monde, 3 April 2009
96. People’s Daily, 4 April 2009
97. Interview, senior civil servant
98. Interview, Brown aide
99. Interview, Mark Malloch-Brown
37. Chamber of Horrors
1. Interview, Cabinet minister
2. Interview, Peter Mandelson
3. ‘Emails that toppled key Brown aide’, Sunday Times, 12 April 2009
4. Damian McBride interview with James Robinson, Media Guardian, 20 July 2009
5. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
6. Interview, Brown inner circle
7. Interviews, Number 10 officials
8. Rachel Sylvester, ‘Brown’s loyal attack dogs always bite to order’, The Times, 14 April 2009
9. Armando Iannucci quoted in the Independent, 15 April 2009
10. Steve Richards, ‘This fiasco may have fatally damaged …’, Independent, 14 April 2009
11. Newsnight, BBC2, 14 April 2009
12. Interview, Brown aide
13. Interview, Brown inner circle
14. Interview, Cabinet minister
15. Gordon Brown, remarks about McBride smears, Glasgow, 16 April 2009
16. Conversation, Cabinet minister
17. ‘Lodger deal earns Jacqui Smith £100,000’, Mail on Sunday, 8 February 2009
18. Jason Groves and Marco Giannangeli, ‘Jacqui Smith puts adult films on expenses’, Sunday Express, 29 February 2009
19. Kirsty Walker and Ryan Kisiel, ‘Minister’s £60,000 expenses for parents’ home’, Mail on Sunday, 22 March 2009
20. Interviews, Number 10 officials
21. Hansard, 30 April 2009
22. Interview, Number 10 official
23. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
24. Interview, minister
25. Interview, Cabinet minister; Philip Snowden, Labour’s first ever Chancellor in 1924, and Chancellor again between 1929 and 1931, is generally regarded by historians as a disastrous holder of the office
26. Interview, Treasury official
27. Interviews, Treasury officials; Patrick Hennessy, ‘How 50p split the Cabinet’, Sunday Telegraph, 26 April 2009
28. Interview, Peter Mandelson
29. Interviews, Treasury officials
30. Treasury select committee report, 6 May 2009
31. Hansard, 27 April 2009
32. Interview, Liberal Democrat MP
33. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
34. Interview, Cabinet minister
35. Joanna Lumley, Evidence to Home Affairs committee, 5 May 2009
36. Conversations, Cabinet ministers
37. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
38. Hansard, 29 April 2009
39. Private information
40. Interview, Cabinet minister
41. BBC News, 29 April 2009
42. Hansard, 30 April 2009
43. Simon Carr, ‘United only in despair’, Independent, 1 May 2009
44. Hazel Blears, ‘YouTube if you want to’, Observer, 3 May 2009
45. Private information
46. Interview, Cabinet minister
47. Daily Telegraph, 8 May 2009
48. Interview, senior civil servant
49. Daily Telegraph, 8 May 2009
50. Ibid., 10 May 2009
51. Ibid., 8 May 2009
52. Ibid., 9 May 2009
53. Nicholas Watt, ‘Ministers on defensive’, Guardian, 9 May 2009
54. Evening Standard, 8 May 2009
55. Question Time, BBC1, 14 May 2009
56. Interviews, ministers and Number 10 officials
57. Interview, senior civil servant
58. Gordon Brown, Speech to the Royal College of Nursing, 11 May 2009
59. Daily Telegraph, 12 May 2009
60. Ibid., 21 May 2009
61. Ibid., 12 May 2009
62. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
63. Interview, Cameron aide
64. David Cameron, news conference, London, 12 May 2009
65. David Cameron, news conference, London, 12 May 2009
66. Daily Telegraph, 13 May 2009
67. Guardian, 13 May 2009
68. The Times, 13 May 2009
69. Who has handled expenses scandal best? Cameron, 57 per cent; Brown, 11 per cent; Clegg, 11 per cent: YouGov, 17 May 2009. Which leader most badly damaged? Cameron, 5 per cent; Brown, 62 per cent; Clegg, 1 per cent; All equally, 25 per cent: Populus for The Times, 30 May 2009
70. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and aides
71. Sky News, 12 May 2009
72. The money came from her husband’s savings towards a new motorbike
73. This Week, BBC1, 14 May 2009
74. For the Hansard Society, cited in the Financial Times, 23 May 2009
75. Figures released by Fees Office, 18 June 2009
76. Andrew Grice, ‘The married couple who took taxpayers for £282,731’, Independent, 15 May 2009
77. Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2009
78. Andrew Sparrow, ‘ “Sullied” members suspend two peers’, Guardian, 21 May 2009
79. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
80. Interview, Number 10 official
81. Gordon Brown, news conference, Downing Street, 19 May 2009
82. Interview, Cabinet minister
83. Philip Webster, ‘Smith and Blears likely to carry can’, The Times, 11 May 2009
84. Interview, Number 10 official
85. Interview, friend of Blears
86. Interview, Number 10 official
87. Hansard, 3 June 2009
88. Daily Mail, 4 June 2009
89. Financial Times, 4 June 2009
90. ‘Labour’s dilemma’, Guardian, 3 June 2009
91. Patrick Hennessy, ‘Darling could replace Smith in nuclear option reshuffle’, Sunday Telegraph, 10 May 2009; George Parker, ‘Brown considers Mandelson for Foreign Secretary after June polls’, Financial Times, 21 May 2009; Isabel Oakeshott, ‘PM wants Balls as Chancellor’, Sunday Times, 31 May 2009; Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, ‘Beleaguered Darling faces reshuffle axe’, Guardian, 2 June 2009
92. Interviews, civil servants
93. Hansard, 3 June 2009
94. BBC News, 1 June 2009
95. Interview, Treasury official
96. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
97. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and officials
98. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and officials
99. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
100. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
101. Allegra Stratton, ‘Life after Cabinet’, Guardian, 18 July 2009
102. Interview, Tessa Jowell
103. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
104. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and officials
105. Sun, 5 June 2009
106. Interview, Number 10 official
107. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
108. Private information
109. Interview, Cabinet minister
110. Interviews, Cabinet ministers and former Cabinet ministers
111. Gaby Hinsliff and Carole Cadwalladr, ‘Angry Flint in fresh attack’, Observer, 7 June 2009
112. Interview, Cabinet minister
113. Interview, Cabinet minister
114. Interview, Cabinet minister
115. Interview, Cabinet minister
117. Interview, Cabinet minister
118. Interview, Barry Sheerman
119. Gordon Brown, news conference, Downing Street, 5 June 2009
120. BBC News, 5 June 2009
121. Interview, Tessa Jowell
122. Conversation, Labour MP
123. Interviews, Labour MPs
124. Interview, former Cabinet minister
125. Hansard, 10 June 2009
126. Interviews, Labour MPs
38. No Time to Lose
1. Gordon Brown, remarks at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, 29 August 2009
2. Interviews, Number 10 officials
3. Jim Pickard, ‘Mandelson met Gaddafi’s son’, Financial Times, 17 August 2009
4. Text released by Number 10, 22 August 2009
5. Gaby Hinsliff, ‘Brown in new storm over freed terrorist’, Observer, 23 August 2009
6. Interviews, Number 10 officials
7. Interview, senior civil servant
8. Interview, Number 10 official
9. Andrew Alderson, Patrick Hennessy and Colin Freeman, ‘The Libyan connection’, Sunday Telegraph, 23 August 2009
10. See Chapter 14
11. Jason Allardyce, ‘Lockerbie bomber “set free for oil” ’, Sunday Times, 30 August 2009
12. Mary Riddell, ‘Straw admits oil link’, Daily Telegraph, 5 September 2009
13. Brown–Netanyahu news conference, Number 10, 25 August 2009
14. Interview, Cabinet minister
15. BBC News, 1 September 2009
16. Gordon Brown, statement on al-Megrahi, Birmingham, 2 September 2009
17. Dominic Lawson, ‘The Prime Minister’s silence is eloquent’, Independent, 25 August 2009
18. Only 16 per cent thought Brown was doing a good job as PM: YouGov for the Sun, 3 September 2009
19. Interviews, Number 10 officials
20. Eric Joyce, resignation letter to Prime Minister, 3 September 2009
21. Barack Obama, speech to military veterans, 17 August 2009
22. 53 per cent thought British troops should not have been deployed to Afghanistan: ICM for National Army Museum, 9 September 2009; 68 per cent wanted troops withdrawn immediately or within a year: Populus for the Times, 14 October 2009; 57 per cent thought the mission could not succeed: YouGov for Channel 4 News, 5 November 2009
23. Servants of the People, p. 159
24. Sun, 6 October 2009
25. Lords Hansard, 6 November 2009
26. See Chapter 3
27. See Chapter 23
28. Interview, Alan West
29. Kim Sengupta, ‘Afghan critic quits’, Independent, 25 September 2009
30. Economist, 30 January 2009
31. Mark Townsend, ‘British troops put Taliban on the run’, Observer, 1 June 2008
32. Ewen MacAskill and Nicholas Watt, ‘US commander calls for hearts and minds’, Guardian, 1 September 2009
33. Figures released by MoD
34. Gordon Brown, speech to International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 4 September 2009
35. Kim Sengupta, ‘Killed by the enemy within’, Independent, 5 November 2009
36. Gordon Brown, speech to Royal College of Defence Studies, London, 6 November 2009
37. GFK NOP for the Independent, 11 November 2009
38. Gordon Brown, speech to Lord Mayor’s Banquet, Guildhall, London, 16 November 2009
39. BBC News, 22 October 2009
40. Daily Politics, BBC2, 14 October 2009
41. Channel 4 News, 14 October 2009
42. Daily Mail, 23 September 2009
43. Patrick Wintour, ‘Obama snubs Brown’, Guardian, 24 September 2009
44. Toby Helm, Gaby Hinsliff and Heather Stewart, ‘Labour has “lost the will to live” ’, Observer 27 September 2009
45. Peter Mandelson, speech to Labour conference, Brighton, 28 September 2009
46. Observer conference interview, Andrew Rawnsley with Peter Mandelson, Brighton, 28 September 2009
47. Interviews, Brown aides
48. Interview, minister
49. ‘Sarah Brown section’, www.number10.gov.uk
50. Interviews and conversations, Brown aides and Cabinet ministers
51. Sarah Brown, remarks to Labour conference, Brighton, 29 September 2009
52. Gordon Brown, speech to Labour conference, Brighton, 29 September 2009
53. Peter Mandelson, speech to Labour conference, Brighton 28 September 2009
54. Sun, 30 September 2009
55. Interview, minister
56. Tom Newton Dunn, ‘Bloody shameful’, Sun, 9 November 2009
57. Conversations, Brown aides
58. Tom Newton Dunn, ‘PM couldn’t even get our name right’, Sun, 9 November 2009
59. Interviews, Number 10 officials
60. Interview, Brown aide
61. Gordon Brown, Number 10 news conference, 10 November 2009
62. Simon Hoggart, ‘This should not be allowed’, Guardian, 11 November 2009
63. 60 per cent of voters thought the Sun was unfair to Brown: ComRes for the Independent on Sunday, 15 November 2009
64. Interviews, Brown aides
65. UK Polling Report
66. Interviews, Cabinet ministers; Mandelson, p. 490
67. Mandelson, p. 490
68. Interviews, Cabinet ministers
69. Mandelson, pp. 482, 489
70. Interview, Jonathan Powell
71. Interview, Tom Fletcher
72. Mandelson, p. 493
73. Interview, Tom Fletcher
74. Interview, Number 10 official
75. BBC News, 25 October 2009
76. Interview, Jonathan Powell
77. Interviews, Tom Fletcher and others
78. Nigel Morris, Vanessa Mock and Tony Paterson, ‘Support for Blair crumbles’, Independent, 30 October 2009
79. Interview, Jonathan Powell
80. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 30 October 2009
81. Interviews, Foreign Office officials and European diplomats
82. Interview, Jonathan Powell
83. Interview, Jonathan Powell
84. Andrew Grice, ‘Blair happy to be out of the race’, Independent, 21 November 2009
85. Interview, Tessa Jowell
86. Interviews, Tom Fletcher and others
87. Interviews, European diplomats
88. Interview, senior civil servant
89. Interviews, Tom Fletcher and others
90. Interview, Jonathan Powell
91. Interviews, Tom Fletcher, Jonathan Powell and others. Many witnesses suggest Mandelson’s memoirs are not to be relied on as an accurate account of his behaviour during this episode.
92. Interview, senior civil servant
93. Interview, senior civil servant
94. Interview, European ambassador
95. Interview, Jonathan Powell
96. Interview, Simon Lewis
97. Mandelson, p. 495
98. Interviews, Simon Lewis and others
99. Interview, Number 10 official
100. Interview, Simon Lewis