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...probably says everything about his current place in history that the former Labour Prime Minister of Euro-skeptic Britain, Tony Blair, chose to kick off his unofficial drive to become the European Union's first president by seeking support from conservatives in Euro-enthusastic France. Suffice to say that he may find the road to the E.U. presidency a bumpy one, as his weekend sojourn in Paris proved...
...Brown risks emulating his predecessor in a way he could never have wished. In 2006, Blair became the first serving Prime Minister to be questioned by police. They were investigating allegations that honors such as peerages had been proffered in exchange for loans to Labour. Brown has already promised the police full cooperation in their current inquiry...
...know what Stevenson was driving at. Under the headline calamity brown, a Nov. 26 cover story in the political journal New Statesman, previously regarded in Westminster as Brown's cheerleader, marked the Prime Minister's astonishing plunge from grace. Pollsters have tracked that vertiginous descent. In opinion polls, Labour led the opposition Conservatives by some eight percentage points in September; two recent surveys show David Cameron's revitalized party ahead by 11 points, the most substantial lead it has enjoyed over Labour since Margaret Thatcher was in power. Brown's government has been buffeted by a series of mishaps...
...Labour needs money. Income from dues has tailed off as membership has fallen from a modern peak of more than 400,000 in 1997 to 177,000 last year. Its debts stand at $54 million. Plans for a snap election, conceived during Brown's brief honeymoon to capitalize on his popularity, added urgency to fund-raising efforts, but were abandoned as Labour's ratings plunged. The fallout damaged Brown badly. "The root of our problems is the dithering over whether to hold an election," says a former government adviser. "Politics can be shaped by a collective mood which shifts...
...danger for Brown is that this will start to be like [John] Major's government, buffeted by things happening to it, in permanent reactive mode, trying to micromanage each response to each incident, occasionally relaunching, and never really able to get back on to its own agenda," says a Labour insider...