In the New Statesman this week, Martin Bright writes that ‘one former cabinet minister who spent a long time at the Treasury told the New Statesman: “Gordon has to get the Obama visit [the G8 summit in April] out of the way then call an election. There really is no other option.”
Today on the front page of the Evening Standard Anne McElvoy reports that a Brown “ally” told her that:
“He would be mad not to think about it.
“The date really selects itself if you look at the options. Gordon will have had the G20 meeting in London in April, which will show him chairing the most important forum in the world economic crisis – and there will have been some time for the fiscal stimulus he is proposing to come through, and the divide with the Tory position to be argued out.”
On page 4 of the paper, Anne McElvoy interviews a former Labour Minister who spent a long time at the Treasury and is an ally of Gordon Brown, Geoffrey
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