The big UK political story is the extension of the cash-for-peerages investigation. All the papers are running it - and it is going to run on for a while longer. Brown is not quite in the spotlight, but is out on the public stage. Here is the Guardian covering the Sky News report:

Police have contacted a "substantial" proportion of Tony Blair's past and present cabinet ministers over the loans-for-peerages scandal, it was claimed today.
Sky News reported that every member of the 2005 cabinet except the prime minister had received a letter about the claims.

"Every minister" includes Brwon of course. So his chances of appearing as Mr Clean after Blair has gone are reduced. Michael White breaks the bad news

why might a protracted controversy over details like that - or the Met's failure to make a case that the CPS and the Attorney General can sanction - matter to prime minister Brown? For the same reason that Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken's doomed libel suits against the Guardian mattered in the mid-90s to John Major whose ministers they had been. A background of scandal makes it harder to make a fresh start, even if Brown is free of this particular taint.

Quite who is tainted is an interesting question. The Guardian also quote a Conservative denial:

A Tory spokesman said no shadow ministers had been contacted by police, apart from the party's former leader, Michael Howard.

This is quite a small group of people. Always interesting when denials are so specific...