James Macintyre

James Macintyre is the author of Gordon Brown: The Inside Story, to be published by Bloomsbury in 2025

Starmer, Mandelson & HMT: why Gordon Brown has never been more relevant

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James Macintyre joins James Heale to discuss his new biography of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown: Power With Purpose. While the book has been years in the making, little did James know that it would end up published at the same time that its themes and subjects could never be more relevant. James tells our deputy political editor

Starmer, Mandelson & HMT: why Gordon Brown has never been more relevant

Gordon Brown’s assisted dying intervention could be decisive

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Gordon Brown, who is in the news this weekend having come out against assisted dying, occasionally has a tendency to hold back. He held back from standing against his close friend John Smith for the Labour party leadership in 1992, though that was always an unlikely prospect. More agonisingly, he held back from running against