Gordon Brown must go

Columnist Polly Toynbee expresses the wish in The Guardian that Gordon Brown be replaced: "Older MPs are imploring young ministers to ... topple the leader. It is hard to blame them. ... No Lazarus has ever come back from a political grave this deep. ... Here is the imaginary scenario: three or four cabinet ministers backed by senior backbenchers go to the prime minister to say it's over. Most ministers are just waiting for someone else to break the glass. An election between several candidates would be no bloodbath but just what Labour needs to regain public attention. ... Let's be clear. This is not happening. ... No one need bother urging any new leader to step up to the plate unless they have a better answer to this: what's Labour for and what is it definitely against?"

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