Profile: Charlie Whelan, Press Secretary to Gordon Brown - Gordon Brown’s fiercest ally/Behind the Iron Chancellor is a press secretary with balls of steel

Together with Peter Mandelson, Alastair Campbell and David Hill, Charlie Whelan belongs to the spin quartet that propelled Labour to power in May. But, although Mandelson and Campbell have both been well-known figures for some time, Whelan has only recently started to gain a media profile of his own.