Gordon Brown is about to be Britain’s Prime Minister. And yet some very senior figures on his own side are certain he is unfit for office: one has called him a “control freak”, another “psychologically flawed” and one serving cabinet minister has said he’d be a “f***ing disaster” as Prime Minister.

Over the last nine months Dispatches has carried out the most in-depth study ever done for television on the Chancellor, based on in-depth interviews with more than 100 witnesses, who include cabinet ministers, MPs, top civil servants, economists, journalists and friends. The programme, presented by Peter Oborne, forensically examines why these claims have been made by some of Gordon Brown’s colleagues and whether they are true. And it asks the biggest question of all: should the public share these fears of Gordon Brown holding ultimate power?

Channel 4, 14th May 8PM