Yeah, right. Somehow, I don’t think so. Frank Field’s attack on Gordon Brown is devastating:

The awful fact that is coming across is that he seems so unhappy in himself. And I think everybody in the country who has ever watched a news clip of the Prime Minister realises that, and it’s a mega problem for him and the government…

That is clearly part of the tragedy on a personal level, as well as on a party, government and country level, that someone whose real aim in life was to be Prime Minister now has the task and seems to be so lacking in enjoyment in trying to try it out.

But Brown isn’t going anywhere. There is no chance of him ever resigning without being forced to since he simply could never bring hismelf to give up the position he fought for so long to get. And there is absolutely no chance of the Labour Party as a whole growing balls and forcing him out.

After all, after saying that Brown was the only person with the skills to be the party leader and Prime Minister just a few months ago, to then force him out and replace him with someone who they considered just a few months ago to be of a lower class would show an utter lack of intelligence and consistency - and immediately cast doubts over the new leader’s ability to govern Britain.

Since Field’s outspoken attack on Brown, ministers - including Brown’s acolyte, Balls - have been sent out to attack Field in return. It appears that they have had at least some effect, sicne Field has now apologised for allowing his campaign over the scrapping of the 10p tax rate to “become personal”. But why should he, when it certainly is a personal issue to all those millions who have been financially punished by Labour!

Brown will certainly still be leader of the Labour Party at the next election - but not for long afterwards, even if by some miracle he manages to scrape a majority.