Over at Comment Central, the Times pair of Danny Finkelstein and Philip Collins – who, for my money, have written perhaps the two finest comment pieces for a UK newspaper so far this year (Finkelstein on Israel; Collins on Brown’s political positioning) – have published their exchange on whether Brown will go before the next election. I’d recommend all CoffeeHousers read it.
Finkelstein summarises the main reasons why it now makes sense for Labour to topple their leader:
“Now I feel differently [from last autumn]. First it is hard to think that any [other potential candidate] would be inferior or do worse politically. Second, the scramble would be undignified but Mr Brown is looking just as undignified. And the victor of, say, a June contest might be able to put an election off for four months or so, with an Autumn General election. And experience? We’ve been through that and it is obvious now it can’t beat time for a change.
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