Snippets from the Daily Mail:-
Gordon Brown is fighting to keep his leadership on course amid dismal opinion polls and escalating Labour revolts over flagship policies.The Independent's Indyblog says the gloom among Labour MPs is palpable:-
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One of the surveys found Mr Brown's personal rating has collapsed further and faster than any Prime Minister since records began - including Neville Chamberlain after Hitler invaded Norway in 1940.
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A separate YouGov survey put the resurgent Conservatives on a 16-year poll high. They scored 44 per cent, their most popular rating since before the Black Wednesday financial disaster in 1992, against Labour's 28 per cent.
At a General Election, that would be enough to give David Cameron a landslide majority.
The speculation about [Gordon Brown] being forced to stand down before the next general election is a bit wild, for now at least. But is not a media invention either. Some Labour MPs are saying that David Cameron is beatable - and if Brown looks as though he can't beat him, they will find someone who can.I don't think Brown is capable of talking his way out of the mess he's gotten himself into (he already looks a broken man) and it's difficult to imagine much will have changed by the time of the next general election. Unless, of course, the parliamentary Labour party really does decide to ditch Brown and anoint a new leader in time for the next election.
If that happens, British politics could get interesting.
Update
Matthew Parris in the Times thinks it possible Brown may be gone before the next election.
