DISPATCHES: CRASH GORDON

In the first account of its kind on television, award-winning journalist Andrew Rawnsley presents the inside political story of the credit crunch. The programme features exclusive interviews with senior figures close to the economic crisis, including Cabinet Ministers, senior politicians and former Treasury insiders. As Prime Minister, Gordon Brown presided over the biggest recession in 75 years. Andrew Rawnsley examines the key moments, showing how Brown as Prime Minister inherited the economic problems of his own ten years as Chancellor.
Monday 8 June 2009
8:00pm, Channel 4
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An excellent documentary. The intervews convinced me that the answer to Labour’s problems would be to make Alistair Darling Prime Minister and Frank Field Chancellor.