The knives are out for Brown again

The last time he was under pressure,his handling of the banking crisis saved him but it is difficult to see how he is going to survive another attempt


More embarrassment for the premiership of Gordon Brown with MP Bob Marshall-Andrews telling the Evening Standard that

"We are inevitably going to lose the next general election. It is quite inevitable."

Marshall Andrews has always been seen as rather a maverick in the party and maybe the leadership will not be too concerned.

However more of the heavyweights are joining the cries.

Ken Livingstone today told LBC Radio that the Prime Minister was "doomed". "I wouldn't bet my own money on Labour winning. The thing that's a weakness for Brown is that all these people like Bob Marshall-Andrews, who said when [Brown] comes in he'll blossom, they're now saying that he's had it.

and Charles Clarke has just appeared on the BBC saying that

recent events have made him "ashamed" to be a Labour MP.

adding that he had

"worked half my life to get Labour into a position where it could be a good government and I do see that fading away".