About the only thing Gordon Brown has got right in recent months is scheduling by-elections so that when the results come in, MPs have left Westminster. This makes it more difficult for those Labour MPs who want to remove Brown to mobilise support.
As Fraser noted in his papers round up last night, there is plenty of talk of a leadership challenge in the papers this morning. The quote that stood out to me came from Graham Stringer, a Labour MP who has already called for Brown to go:
The formal mechanism for removing Brown takes far too long: it will have to be the men in grey suits who do for him. To that end it is worth noting, as Nick Robison does, that we have not yet heard from Jack Straw. I also cannot remember seeing Geoff Hoon touring the TV studios in the last 36 hours. These are the two men to watch“A majority of Labour parliamentary private secretaries now think there should be a leadership election and the main debate is when it should take place,” he said. “I am absolutely certain from my personal knowledge that soundings are being taken from the top of government at the present time on how to get rid of him.”
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