Gordon Brown’s premiership was branded almost “beyond repair” by the US embassy in London after less than a year, according to Wikileaks revelations.

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PM Brown ‘disaster’ – Wikileaks

Leaked US cables show Gordon Brown was rebuffed by the US after suggesting Gary McKinnon could plead guilty in return for serving his sentence in the UK.

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US ‘rebuffed’ Brown over McKinnon

Former PM Gordon Brown tells MPs he does not believe the government will meet its commitment to give 0.7% of income as international aid by 2013.

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Brown doubts over 0.7% aid target

Ex-PM Gordon Brown will use his first Commons speech as a backbencher to try to save shipyard jobs near his constituency.

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Gordon Brown to address Commons

Questions remain over government assurances that NI will receive £18bn pledged in 2006 by Gordon Brown, says Finance Minister Sammy Wilson.

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Wilson wants £18bn pledge clarity

A Labour general election candidate in Norfolk who described Gordon Brown as the “worst PM ever” apologises to his party.

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‘Worst PM’ jibe candidate sorry

Former prime minister Gordon Brown warns the UK government against cancelling two Royal Navy aircraft carriers.

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Brown warning over carrier cuts

Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown expresses “anger” at the failure of rich nations to honour their pledges to combat global poverty.

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Brown angry at slow poverty work

Former head of the Army Gen Sir Richard Dannatt accuses Tony Blair and Gordon Brown of letting down British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Ex-army head attacks Labour PMs

Allies of Gordon Brown rally behind the former prime minister, describing criticism of him in Tony Blair’s memoirs as “unfair” and “one-sided”.

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Brown allies dismiss ‘unfair’ Blair attack

Labour Party members begin voting on which one of five candidates will replace Gordon Brown as leader, with the result announced later this month.

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Labour leadership vote under way

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair describes Gordon Brown as “difficult, at times maddening” in his long-awaited memoirs, to be published on Wednesday.

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Brown was ‘difficult’, says Blair

This article titled “George Bush’s White House had ‘grave doubts’ about Gordon Brown as PM” was written by Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent, for The Guardian on Sunday 29th August 2010 20.30 UTC

The White House under George Bush reportedly told Tony Blair it harboured “grave doubts” about Gordon Brown’s suitability to be prime minister.

The concerns about Brown, whose relations with Bush were stilted when he eventually became prime minister, arose from a difficult meeting with Condoleezza Rice.

According to the Sunday Telegraph, Brown is said to have “harangued” Rice, then secretary of state, over US policy on aid and development in Africa. Rice reportedly alerted the White House which passed on its concerns to Blair.

No date is give for the meeting with Rice, who became secretary of state at the start of Bush’s second term in January 2005. Blair announced in the early autumn of 2006 that he would stand down before the time of the Labour conference in 2007, suggesting that Rice’s comments were passed on in 2005 or 2006.

Labour sources were not surprised by the report, given Brown had made it clear he did not share Blair’s enthusiasm for the US president. But the paper’s suggestion that Blair prolonged his time in Downing Street in response to misgivings in the White House were dismissed by insiders.

Peter Mandelson’s recent memoirs state that Blair hung on so long because Brown declined to support his domestic public services reforms. “Basically Gordon is on strike,” Blair reportedly told Mandelson of the then chancellor’s view of a series of five year plans he launched at the Labour conference in 2004.

Blair’s hand was finally forced in 2006 after he declined to call for a ceasefire after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. David Miliband, then the environment secretary, was one of his supporters to speak out in cabinet, inadvertently strengthening the hand of Brown’s supporters who finally struck

Brown eventually became prime minister at the end of June 2007. A month later he visited Bush at Camp David, causing mild offence by briefing that he would not handle relations with the White House in the same way as his predecessor.

In contrast to the jeans sported by Blair for a Camp David meeting with Bush, Brown made a point of wearing a suit and tie for his joint press conference. Bush addressed Brown as Gordon who then replied “Mr President”. Brown described their discussions as “full and frank”.

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Former UK prime minister Gordon Brown says the international response to the Pakistan flood disaster must improve.

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