Fickle lot the press. First call an election, then don't. A couple of polls put Labour and Conservative within four points of each other and another one shows them tied. However these kind of instant reactions are no judge.
I think that any Labour lead over the Conservatives at this point in time is incredible and that the current poll ratings Labour are seeing at the moment are the best it is going to get over the next couple of years. With a slowing economy and public expenditure restraint kicking in there is only one way down.
If however Brown runs scared than he will need a good wheeze in order to absorb some of the s**t that will be dumped all over him. He could promise to legislate in the forthcoming Parliament for fixed term Parliaments to remove the power to call snap elections from the Prime Minister. That would return him to the programme he set out for Government when first elected as Labour Leader.
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