The rhododendron flowers are out, so it must be time for the big beasts of the Labour Party to stir again. Charles Clarke has said that he’s ashamed to be a Labour MP after the events of the past few weeks. Well, who wouldn’t be? Clarke says there are no signs of a leadership challenge, but I’m not so sure. I think Frank Field is right that if the European and local elections on 4 June are as bad as expected, we might see a summer of serious speculation about Brown’s position. We are back preceisely where we were last summer.
David Blunkett has entered the fray again. I thought he was rather good on the radio this morning: sounding a warning without sounding disloyal. But he is right that there has been a “catastrophic meltdown of trust”.
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