Rumours abound this evening that another cabinet minister is set to resign over Gordon Brown’s leadership. That minister is Tessa Jowell.
But the anti-Brown plotters will be disappointed to learn that Jowell has been on the phone tonight reassuring Downing Street that she’s staying after all. “Tessa is in a good place with Gordon right now,” a well-placed source tells me.
This, despite her recent reported complaints that the prospect of a “class war” against the Tories is “hideous”.
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