Gordon Brown last night denied widespread rumours that he could quit on health grounds before the election. He spoke out after former Labour Cabinet minister Charles Clarke suggested he should resign with dignity.
The denial was predictable but this is probably the start of a strategy to prepare the ground for him to resign office,
The ill health story enables him to leave with some kind of “dignity” as it stands Labour would suffer a massive defeat at the elections in May next year, by dropping Brown party chiefs are hoping to minimise losses giving them a chance to regain power in the not to distant future. Leaving Brown where he is up to voting day and then suffering humiliating losses would keep labour out for possibly the next twenty years.
Brown inherited a host of problems the economy is an obvious one, but Immigration Crime and Education are all areas for concern, and there doesn’t appear to be any headway on any of them, in fact Immigration is worse and only last week we heard of spending cuts of up to two billion pounds in Education.
The simple fact is Brown was an ok number two but is a long way from being able to lead, the sad thing from a Labour point of view is there is no obvious successor.
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