Political

The Labour Party’s leadership problems

Depending on who you believe, either Charles Clarke is trying to get Jon Cruddas to challenge Gordon Brown for Labour’s leadership (The Independent), or half the Cabinet have decided that Brown must go and David Miliband is plotting to run for leader (Sunday Times), or Brown is being put under pressure to appoint a Deputy Prime Minister, so that an obvious successor would be in place to take over from him (The Observer), or possibly all three are the case.

But perhaps the starkest sign of Labour’s problems is the paucity of appearances [UPDATE: until this morning’s round of breakfast shows] from senior Labour members willing to speak up in defence of Gordon Brown.

Whatever your views of John Prescott as Deputy Prime Minister, he did repeatedly show full loyalty to Labour in public and is continuing to do so. But he does look a rather lonely figure now speaking up in defence of Gordon Brown.

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