Another day, another slew of stories about how Brown—or Heathcliff, as we should perhaps now call him—might be removed. The Guardian reports that the PM has been holding meetings with small groups of Labour MPs in an attempt to shore up his position. However, the meetings are not going according to plan as Brown apparently just thumps the table and urges the MPs to tell their constituents about what Labour has done for them. The Guardian recounts that when Brown blamed Labour’s poor poll ratings on the global economic turbulence, one former minister challenged him, saying: “Many say you are the problem. What are you going to do about it?” Brown avoided answering by taking questions from other MPs.
Steve Richards argues in his column that Glasgow East will not finish the Prime Minister off. But he also details how one former cabinet minister who is now in the Lords was approached to be a member of a delegation that would go to Brown and tell him to quit when the time comes.
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