Gordon brown may lack the political graces but one quality he has in abundance: sheer bloody-minded grit. After a week in which ten ministers resigned, backbenchers threatened to sack him and his humiliated Labour Party got its smallest share of a national vote in almost a century (see page 29),rnthe prime minister is still here. On sufferance, it is true; beholden to various big beasts in his cabinet (see page 37); and vulnerable to bad news from by-elections and the like in the 12 months before a general election must be held. But, against an admittedly gutless bunch of would-be regicides, he has clung on by his bitten fingernails. Is this good news or bad?
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