Tribune contents 29 June 2007

In this week's Tribune:

• Social housing back on the agenda
• Ed Balls on global financial inclusion
• Taking on the Tories over Europe
• What's wrong with Gordon Brown
• Private equity managers turn Britain into banana republic.

Not the Deputy Prime Minister...

...but in the cabinet she's Leader of the House of Commons, and Minister for Women. Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the Labour Party.

...and the runner up is...

Alan Johnson... now the Health Secretary

The Miliband kid

We are told, the new foreign secretary is both strong and tough - good job, because only the best is good enough.

The creamiest grin, the whitest smile
The goodness that's in Labour guile

Pencil sketch.

Hello Darling...

(...in the words of the immortal Edmond Blackadder). Our new Gordon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Alastair Darling

First woman @ Home

Congratulations to former chief whip Jacqui Smith. A pencil sketch 'first go'. She seems to have inherited some of Margaret Beckett's teeth...

And, on the 'other' news about Tony Blair being interviewed for a third time about cash for honours, we refer you to something done not-so-long ago.

Jack Straw for Justice!

Jack Justice - a pencil sketch for a future knight of the realm, no doubt.

Hack on Gordon Brown - Prime Minister

Alex Hughes's View - 29th June 2007

We would like to refer you to the entry for June 21

It's new job number one - and somebody in the White House clearly has a highly developed sense of humour. Our soon-to-be-ex-PM is going to be a middle east peace envoy.

The Harriet and Gordon show

Harriet Harman won.

Her boss made a speech promising further change in education with the rate of spending on each pupil rising to comparable rates in the private sector. Knowing this, you might wonder if Harriet would have been tempted to keep her children out of private education in the leafier bits of London?

Hack on Tony Blair - US ambassador for peace

It's hard to imagine our soon to be ex-PM as an ambassador for peace in the middle east.

Hack on the public spending squeeze

Poor old Prudence. This 'hug' is as inevitable as the Gordon Brown inheritance cartoons that will have to be drawn next week

Alex Hughes' View - 22nd June 2007

Hack on the Labour Deputy Leadership contest

Martin Rowson on Mr Blair's farewell to the media

John Jensen on political networking

A gladmouth at work.

Hack on the G8 climate change debate

Why would anyone say no to helping save the planet?

John Jensen on the Gordon Brown cabinet

While all the attention is on the G8 and the return of the Cold War,things are stirring at home. Heavens, even the BBC is at it.

Double click on the image for a close-up.

Alex Hughes's View - 8th June 2007