The PM is an unlikely trump card for his party - but David Cameron should be wary, says Mary Riddell.

Gordon Brown’s smile does not look at home on his face. It sits uneasily, like an uninvited guest, until his features can resume their comfortably dour grooves.The brooding Scot ended his decade ...

Gordon Brown's smile does not look at home on his face. ... Grumpy Gordon is an enigma compared with Captain Showbiz, as the glib Blair is called by a morning TV host here.

At one time, grumpy and misanthropic was close to a job description for British PMs: Thatcher and Churchill were cheerful? “To be sincere,” said Oscar Wilde, “is such a difficult pose to ...

With the right spin doctor, Gordon Brown could seem an easy politician to admire. This was the smart, serious-minded Scot who took prudence as his watchword in his successful management of the ...

Ed Balls has described Gordon Brown as 'much more of a champagne socialist than Tony Blair', revealing it was hard to pick a way through the piled-up boxes of cheap fizz when entering his flat ...

Critics of Gordon Brown–and amid sliding approval ratings, there are more than a few–complain that Britain’s Prime Minister lacks vision. They say he’s a details man–not a bad attribute ...

Gordon Brown takes over the British government, replacing Tony Blair as prime minister. Brown is considered to be fond of America — he used to vacation on Cape Cod and reads American literature.