John Prescott was a politician both behind and ahead of his time. Considered too bluff and old Labour to reach to the very top in the 90s, today his authenticity and class credentials would have been perfect to fight Farage and populism. Labour needs more like him.
RIP Quincy Jones, who leaves us at age 91. No musician of his generation moved so effortlessly and brilliantly between styles and settings—collaborating with everyone from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson to Miles Davis. What a remarkable career!
I guarantee that if Tony Blair or Gordon Brown had left a major WW2 memorial event in France early to get back on the election campaign trail it would be leading the news this morning …
Gordon Brown, "It's a sign of the times that John Major and I find ourselves more on the same side, than on opposite sides"
"We're not trying to make Cameron-style comebacks"
"I'm too old for British politics and too young for American politcis"
"A few years ago, John, Tony and I were three former Prime Ministers, now there are seven. The Conservative party seems to have found the magic formula for the mass production of ex Prime Ministers.. With perhaps some more to come"
Brilliant introduction @GordonBrown 👏😁
An unelected prime minister who asked unelected King Charles III to give unelected David Cameron a peerage so he could serve as unelected foreign secretary has attacked the House of Lords for being unelected
Sunak looking/sounding pretty desperate. Also, if this is the really major change he says 1. Why no statement to Parliament, instead a press conference with clappers at the back? 2. Why no election? Just get on with it and let the country put itself out of this misery