If I was Gordon Brown, one of the things that would worry me most is how much more relaxed Labour figure are becoming about expressing unhelpful thoughts. Just today we have Matthew Taylor, Tony Blair’s former chief strategic adviser, telling The Guardian that the Brownite handling of donor-gate has been “inept” and that it’s “too early to say that the position for the government is terminal” and a minister who was dropped when Brown came to office confiding to a Sky journalist that he thinks the government is a ‘disaster.’
There’s also pressure on Brown from the opposite end of Labour’s ideological spectrum. This week’s New Statesman cover is a piece by Jon Cruddas and Jon Trickett arguing that “Labour’s essential identity is in real danger” and announcing that they intend to become, to borrow a phrase, ‘loving
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