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No room for further error
IF Gordon Brown is to make a fist of his
promised fightback, the first step was to
hold up his hands and take responsibility
for the very deep hole in which the
Labour Party finds itself.
He did that yesterday in a very personal
way by admitting to errors of
judgement over the 10p tax rate and his
dithering over an early General Election,
as well as accepting his short-comings
as a communicator.
The Prime Minister needed to publicly
fall on his sword and he has done so.
Now he must begin the task of rebuilding
confidence in himself, his party and
his Government.
As it stands, with talk sweeping Westminster
of possible challenges to his
leadership in the wake of last week's
electoral disaster, he faces a tough task.
But while there are Blairites openly
rubbing their hands with glee at Mr
Brown's problems, there is not yet
enough of an appetite for a leadership
battle within the Labour Party.
We believe that Mr Brown will get his
chance to fight the next election, but the
fightback has to gain momentum quickly
and he cannot afford another blunder
of 10p tax rate proportions.
As for David Cameron, sitting pretty
with a luxurious lead, it must be tempting
to simply sit back and let Mr Brown
and his party implode.
That will not be good enough. The Tories
are doing well on the back of
Labour's failings - not because Mr
Cameron so far makes a convincing
Prime Minister-in-waiting.
10:06am Monday 5th May 2008
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