The vultures are circling over Downing Street. Labour’s defeat in the Glasgow East by-election was a disaster. This was supposed to be Labour’s third safest seat in Scotland and our 25th safest in the whole of Britain.
Such ‘meltdown’ figures would not of course be replicated in a General Election. But crushing defeat now stares the party in the face – the biggest crisis in Labour for a generation – and it is a crisis of governance and vision as much as of personal leadership. The great tragedy for the party is that most of the vultures circling around Gordon Brown would only perpetuate the crisis.
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