No change, no chance for Labour

Gordon is safe is the new conventional wisdom. Nick Robinson, the arbiter of the CW, said this morning on the Today programme that “Gordon Brown no longer appears to be under threat.”

This strikes me as evidence that Labour has given up, that it lacks the stomach for the fight. Looking at Brown’s poll rating—74 percent think he is a bad Prime Minister—it is almost inconceivable that Labour could win the next election with him in charge. Indeed, one suspects that Brown is leading Labour to a defeat of epic proportions.

It is not as if Brown has faced down his internal enemies. It is just that they have retreated because getting rid of him appears too hard. Asd Nick Robinson put it this morning when, “The PM, it seems, has been saved for now at least not by anything he’s done but by an atmosphere of weary resignation that has taken over much of his party.”