Summary
The disastrous Norwich by-election, followed by the shattering result in Michael Martin's Glasgow seat, a conference which was the political equivalent of cage fighting, coupled with poll ratings in freefall, heading in the same direction as sterling and the stock market as the money people realised that 'quantitative easing' was just smart new jargon for debauching the currency - all these had created uncontainable panic among Labour MPs. Inevitably the men in the M&S suits - including the prime minister's old friend, the chief whip Nick Brown, and the man who ran his 'campaign' in 2007, Jack Straw - had gone to Downing Street with the bad news.
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My Dream of Mandelson As Labour Leader
A semi-conscious Simon Hoggart attends a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party in which the Prince of Darkness has replaced Gordon - and is cheered to the rafters
It was one of those dreams we all have. It had its own internal logic: everything that occurs seems to make perfect sense, ...See the full content of this document
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