Fraser Nelson Fraser Nelson

Brown is trying to stitch up the leadership before the electoral hurricane of 3 May

A silencer may have been fitted on the starting gun, but no one in Westminster can doubt that the Gordon Brown leadership campaign is now fully up and running.

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