Labour Panic Predicted After By-Election
Andrew Grice, The Independent:I will eat my hat if Labour wins next Thursday's by-election in Crewe and Nantwich. The bigger the Tory majority – and it could be big – the bigger the Labour panic.
What can Mr Brown do then? A draft Queen's Speech? Been there. Another marathon stint in the TV studios? Done that. A press conference? Don't call us. A cabinet reshuffle? It is the last card for Mr Brown to play, but there is no guarantee it would change anything. It rarely did much for Tony Blair.
Labour MPs ... will be guided by what the public think of the Prime Minister. That's why Crewe matters, and is dangerous for Mr Brown. "The public have stopped listening to Gordon," said one Labour MP who had been desperate for him to take over from Mr Blair. "The danger is that people have made up their minds about him."
Andrew Grice, The Independent:
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By-election defeat leaves Labour in crisis as Gordon Brown fights for his political future.Union chiefs, who met senior Labour figures including Brown yesterday to plot the party's future direction in the wake of the Glasgow East mess, also suggested it may be time for him to go.But allies of Brown insisted a leadership challenge would bel madness and predicted a fightback in the autumn........
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By-election defeat leaves Labour in crisis as Gordon Brown fights for his political future.Union chiefs, who met senior Labour figures including Brown yesterday to plot the party's future direction in the wake of the Glasgow East mess, also suggested it may be time for him to go.But allies of Brown insisted a leadership challenge would bel madness and predicted a fightback in the autumn........
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