It is his former friends that Brown should be nervous of

I have a sneaking feeling that the cabinet ministers Gordon Brown should be most worried about are Douglas Alexander and Des Browne. Both are former Brown loyalists who have been shabbily treated by their boss. If either of them turned on the PM, it would prove that this is not a Blairite plot or a Southern rebellion but a movement of those who have come to realise that Brown is simply not up to the job. 

Douglas Alexander has been frozen out by Brown, made to carry the can for the election that never was. Those who stayed up watching the BBC’s coverage of Glasgow East will remember how close he came to snapping that night when the presenter asked him how he felt about being the man responsible for stoking the election speculation and now it seems that Douglas Alexander is flirting with having his revenge on the man who has cast him out.