Is John Rentoul right about June 27th 2007?
Was this the moment that Labour was “doomed”? In an interesting column on electoral reform today the Indy writer who often seems to be more Blairite than Blair, John Rentoul, made the following observation:- “..I am bound by that old self-denying ordinance not to name names, but something happened on 27 June 2007. That something virtually ensured that the party was doomed at the forthcoming election…” Is Rentoul being unfair. Was Brown always doomed to defeat or are we, even…