Political blog: Could polls spell doom for Brown?
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BREAKING NEWS:
Gordon Brown is facing even greater pressure tonight with the
resignation of works and pension minister James Purnell. He has
openly called on Mr Brown to stand down, saying that Labour will
not win the general election so long as he is PM.
The parallels with the disintegration of Margaret Thatcher's
leadership inn 1992 are almost uncanny. Purnell looks like becoming
the 2009 equivalent of Geoffrey Howe.
I'll be
covering the results of KCC election as they come in tomorrow
(Friday) both on the blog and on kent
online.
We've reporters going to most counts tommorow morning and will
have comprehensive coverage, anaylsis and reaction to all the
results throughout the day. You'll also be able to catch up with
devleopments on our kmfm our
radio stations.
We'll be doing the same on Sunday when the results of the Euro
Elections are declared. The results of those won't be known until
late on Sunday night but we hope to be posting them as soon as they
are out.
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I SUSPECT
that we won't know the names of any MPs prepared to add their
names to the round-robin email calling on Gordon
Brown to fall on his sword until after the election
results are known, which means that unless he steps down
before Sunday, his fate hangs in the balance until at least next
week.
Meanwhile, a Kent MP has tells me that the mood at Westminster
remains dire, with many who were around when John Major's
administration was in its final convulsions and when Margaret
Thatcher was turfed out of office, saying the mood now is even
more bleak than it was then.
If that's the case, things are really bad for Labour - even
before voters deliver their verdict today.
Thursday, June 04 2009
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