The Mail calls for Smith’s head

The Daily Mail sets about Jacqui Smith in its editorial today. It declares that:

“This sorry little cameo only confirms that this Home Secretary is so hopelessly out of her depth that she makes a predecessor such as Charles Clarke seem like a Colossus.

Surely, amid rising violence and mayhem in the streets, the public deserves better.”

Now, The Daily Mail falling out with a Labour Home Secretary is not that surprising. But considering the influence that The Mail has on Brown, this editorial will give Jacqui Smith a nervous moment or two. I still think, though, that Brown will be loathe to move the most senior female member of his team; particularly, as there is no other obvious female candidate for promotion to a top job.