There are a couple of excellent articles in the Evening Standard today. Joe Murphy has done a great piece on how Gordon Brown has left Stephen Carter high and dry. Brown gave Carter a big title, promised him authority and then backed off as soon as the old guard began to kick up fuss and it now appears that Carter is on the outs. Murphy quotes one ‘Labour insider’ as saying that “Gordon can hardly bear to look at him anymore.”
The real scoop, though, comes in Anne McElvoy’s column. She reveals that:
Now, there have been previous times where the Brown camp has felt that they have been promised something only for Miliband not to deliver. But if this deal holds, then Brown really will have conference to try and save himself.“Miliband has privately assured the PM that he will not speak further on New Labour woes until after conference.”
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