Charlie Whelan
Charlie Whelan, former adviser to Prime Minister Gordon Brown when he was Chancellor, was one of the best known ministerial advisors.He was forced to stand down from Mr Brown's side in the fall-out from Peter Mandelson's resignation from the cabinet over the then-trade and industry secretary's secret loan from fellow minister Geoffrey Robinson.
It was the culmination of years of internal Labour feuding between the Brown and Blair camps, often prosecuted through proxy wars involving their closest aides and allies briefing against each other.
Whelan stood accused of being the source of the leak of Mandelson's secret loan. Whether he was or not, the cold war being waged between the Blair and Brown camps required that the forced departure of Mandelson, the prime minister's most trusted ally, be matched by Whelan's resignation soon after.
Since then he's become a successful writer and broadcaster co-hosting the highly acclaimed Sunday Service political programme on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Charlie's a regular contributor to the national press and writes a weekly sports column for the Sunday Telegraph, a betting column for New Statesman and is regularly to be found on TV or radio giving his opinions on politics, sport and the media. Won a Royal Television Society award for his documentary "Spinners & Losers".
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