Gordon Brown today denied behaving aggressively towards Rebekah Brooks when he telephoned her expecting an apology for negative coverage, only to be told more was to come.

I FEEL your pain. That was Gordon Brown’s message yesterday to the relatives of soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

GORDON BROWN said yesterday he had apologised to the grieving mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan for “any unintended mistake” in a handwritten letter of condolence.