The Birmingham Post: There's Nothing Labour Can Do About Its Crisis

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The what-to-do-about-Gordon problem will become much easier for Labour to solve once the party accepts there is almost certainly nothing it can do now to win the next General Election. No Government in history has recovered sufficiently from such disastrous opinion poll ratings, and by-election defeats on the scale of Crewe and Glasgow East, in time to win the confidence of voters at the polls - especially not when the economy is on the rocks.

The wisest counsel for Mr Brown's would-be successor as party leader is to keep his or her powder dry until the position becomes vacant, presumably a few days after the election, which is now most likely to be held in May 2010. It is unclear quite who would want the thankless task at this stage - certainly not David Miliband, who has time to wait until the political weather is better, and possibly not even the eternally ambitious Jack Straw, who must know a duff hand when he sees one.

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The Birmingham Post: There's Nothing Labour Can Do About Its Crisis

The flurry of activity following the Glasgow East result, with allegations ...

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