Another day, same bad story for Brown

Every day now brings another set of bad headlines for Gordon Brown. Today, there’s that dire poll in the FT--which Pete mentioned, the news that a cabinet minster told Nick Robinson that "the danger we face is that we are just too damaged to recover”, and a whole slew of columns laying into the Prime Minister.

There is, as Jackie Ashley argues, an element of piling on in this coverage. But there’s definitely a feeling in Westminster that there’s blood in the water. Brown desperately needs to change the story but he’s lost control of the news agenda. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, May 1st is his best—and perhaps only chance—to once more become master of his fate.