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.