Is the worst over for Brown?

There is a little glimmer of hope this afternoon for Gordon Brown: the Politics Home 5,000 Panel reports that Brown’s ratings are no longer falling. The bad news is that they have bottomed out with 77 percent of voters disapproving of the job Brown is doing.

If the Prime Minister’s mood is improved by this news then he shouldn’t read Ben Brogan’s blog which warns of trouble ahead for Brown from a possible Scottish by-election. A defeat in his own backyard would be another personal humiliation for Brown.