The Knock-Out Blow?

The result in Crewe and Nantwich is a profound blow to Labour and to Gordon Brown. Whether it will be the knock-out blow will depend on how much of an impetus it will give to the already growing murmur that he could not win a general election. Think hard on that all you hard-working but high earning MPs in marginal, or even, after yesterday, not so marginal constituencies. My own view is that he will be ousted before the next general election but that the process will be slow and painful, revealing the many differences concealed by the as yet unyielding show of cabinet solidarity. Most commentators and psephologists seem this morning to agree with this view. A lamentable fall of a great but flawed man seems inevitable.

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