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The overwhelming problem for Brown and his minsters in proposing electoral reform is that it looks like a reaction to Labour’s historic defeat at the polls in the Euro Parliament elections. It has the appearance of an act of desperation. For it was only two nights ago that the party was getting the terrible news about a total collapse of support in virtually every part of the country. So why start talking about the voting system now? If Labour had…

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Is it compatible with his peerage and new position? A nice little problem for BBC bosses over Gord’s biggest re-shuffle gimmick – making the former Amstrad boss turned TV star, Sir Alan Sugar the government “Enterprise Czar” and giving him a peerage. He’ll sit on the Labour benches. Does his new political position mean that he should give up the show – something that BBC bosses will desperately try to avoid because “The Apprentice” is a ratings winner? A BBC…

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What do we think of the new PaddyPower market? PaddyPower have got a new market up on which from a list of Cabinet minister will be the next to resign/get sacked. These are the options and opening prices:- David Miliband – 13/8 Gordon Brown – 7/4 Alistair Darling – 4/1 Alan Johnson – 6/1 Ed Balls – 8/1 Harriet Harman – 12/1 Jack Straw – 14/1 Lord Mandelson – 16/1 This is quite hard but I’ve put a little bet…

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Could this add to the pressure on Brown? A new ComRes tonight for tomorrow’s Independent seeks to test how Labour would do if other figures were in Number 10 rather than Gordon Brown. This is how they rated:- Alan Johnson CON 36 LAB 26 LD 19 Jack Straw CON 36 LAB 25 LD 19 David Miliband CON 37 LAB 25 LD 19 Ed Balls CON 37 LAB 23 LD 20 John Cruddas CON 36 LAB 22 LD 21 Gordon Brown…

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What do we think of the Guido “report”? There’s a piece just been published on Guido that I’m putting up here because it does sound plausible. Guido writes: ” a source has just phoned, claiming to be at the drinks reception for North West Labour Party parliamentary researchers, where James Purnell has just told them that, if no credible candidate comes forward by noon tomorrow, he himself will stand..” Purnell, through his actions on Thursday night, has shown himself to…

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What expectations do we have of tonight’s meeting? At 6pm Gordon Brown is due to attend the much-trailed meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party – the event , it’s been suggested, which could be highly dangerous for the PM. There’s been all the talk of the email rebellion but are there any expectations that something could happen. The real problem for disgruntled Labour MPs is that Brown and Mandelson seem to hold all the aces – if they get too…

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We are working on our technical issues – but there’s no quick fix PB’s cartoonist, Marf, has done a brilliant drawing this morning – but I’m having problems uploading it. You can see it by going to PB Channel 2 or her site LondonSketchbook.com We are looking urgently at the technical issues of coping with the mass of traffic that we’ve been getting – 1.35 million page views in the first week of June alone. This is far in excess…

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How will a Tory Wales go down with Labour MPs? Of all the results so far tonight the one that stands out, surely, is from Wales. The massive collapse in Labour’s vote in what was a traditional stronghold and the emergence of the Tories as the top party in the principality seems to be totally astounding. This is one of those results that you simply could not have predicted and is so shocking that it could change the dynamics of…

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