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Last Modified: 09 May 2008
By: Cathy Newman

Gordon Brown fails to clear up the confusion over his government's position on Scottish independence. Cathy Newman reports.

Gordon Brown has been unable to clear up the confusion over the government's position on Scottish independence. It is the trouble in his own backyard that is refusing to go away.

Far from forging an agreement, Labour's divisions seem to have widened. Now Mr Brown has refused to back the Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander's call to "bring on" a referendum on the issue.