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Labour's 'Operation Fightback'?

By Channel 4 News

Updated on 27 September 2009

Gordon Brown tries to launch the
"fightback" with some combative rhetoric, in contrast to comments by Chancellor Alistair Darling that the party appeared to be losing the will to live. Gary Gibbon reports.

Gordon Brown (Credit: Reuters)

The prime minister also announced a law to force the next government, whoever it is, to halve Britain's deficit in four years, as well as renouncing laws to curb bankers' bonuses, claiming it would be the toughest regime in the world.

But there is anger among his aides tonight that his health came under scrutiny again when he was forced to deny he was taking painkillers.


Krishnan Guru-Murthy talked to the foreign secretary, David Miliband.


Krishnan Guru-Murthy was joined by former minister, Tom Watson and Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee.

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