As Gordon Brown prepares for tomorrow’s crunch meeting on whether or not to call an election the case against going early is getting stronger. A poll for the Daily Politics found that 57% of voters think Brown would be putting Labour’s interests ahead of those of the country if he went now; suggesting that Labour might not get the bump government normally do at the beginning of a campaign. Labour MPs in marginal seats are now telling the press that they don’t want an election this year and the early polling in the key marginals is reportedly “too close for comfort”.
Hedged against that is the diffuclty of backing down now. One cabinet source tells The Independent that “It’s gone so far now, I don’t think it can be stopped. I think Gordon is going to go for it.” But there’s also a more positive reason to go early. Apparently Deborah
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