Yet it continues to get worse and worse even as the Prime Minister launches his comeback.

Frank Field,leader of the 10p tax rebellion,tells the BBC World service that he will be very suprised if Brown is in charge at the next election and said that he was prone to rages and unhappy.

His comments including the unhappyness one in which he goes on to say

"That's clearly part of the tragedy - on a personal level as well for a party, government and country level - that somebody whose real aim in life is to be prime minister, now has the task and seems so lacking in enjoyment in trying to carry it out,"

are described by James Kirkup as

dreadful, murderous stuff, going straight for the jugular. It raises one simple, awful question: if Gordon Brown doesn't believe in his premiership, why should anyone else?