Who actually broke the story that Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon were planning to rebel against Gordon Brown? Sure, it’s not a big issue but I’m interested in it as a matter of record.

Rumours last night that Tessa Jowell was planning to leave were of course unfounded. So go to the real names first?

It did look like the first person to have tweeted it was Andrew Sparrow at the Guardian. But it doesn’t list the exact time.

Guido Fawkes claims he was not long after that, but actually he was third in line.

By 12:17pm James Macintyre at the New Statesman had published the story on his blog, before the Guardian did.

The New Statesman tweeted it immediately too.

So even if Andrew tweeted it first, he wrote the story after. James on the other hand wrote the story first and then tweeted it.

So it looks like the New Statesman’s James Macintyre got that scoop, and Guido’s inference that he was second is wrong.

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