Gordon Brown's attempt to evade any blame for the briefings against Alistair Darling

Gordon Browm appears to be trying to suggest that any briefings against Alistair Darling were not done by him, on his instructions or with his knowledge. Let's assume for the moment that Gordon Brown is telling the truth and that all three of these statements are true. Then maybe Gordon Brown could answer the following questions that seem to naturally arise:

1. When the unauthorised briefings against your Chancellor of the Exchequer were revealed what investigations did you launch to find out the source(s) of the briefings?

2. What did these investigations discover and as these were unauthorised briefings against a valued colleague what disciplinary action against the instigators of such briefings has been taken as a result?

3. If you did not launch an investigation into the unauthorised briefings then why didn't you?

4. If you did launch an investigation and no action was taken as a result of what was discovered, why was no action taken?


Of course the above assumes that Gordon Brown has been telling the truth about having no knowledge of the briefings against Alistair Darling. There's a whole separate set of questions that need to be asked and answered if he has not been totally straight with us.