Gordon Brown really is in trouble, if the latest of the Telegraph's list of Brown's biggest influences: 40-31 - Telegraph is anything to go by. Yesterday we had perennial under-achiever Charlie Whelan; today we have perennial under-achiever Bob Shrum: A US political consultant, Shrum has worked on eight presidential election… read more…

The Torygraph's first list of Gordon Brown's biggest influences includes one stand-out name: Charlie Whelan. The comeback kid. No one epitomised the aggressiveness of the Brownite regime better than Whelan. But two years into the Blair years he spun out of control and was forced to leave the stage. However,… read more…