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In a Commons bar, Labour MPs relived a plot in the late Sixties to depose Harold Wilson, a prime minister who had lost his authority. No prizes for guessing why: the question dominating Labour minds is whether the party should soldier on with Gordon Brown or find someone else to lead them into the next election.

By Andrew Grice A rare bit of good news for Gordon Brown. Speculation that Tony Blair is going to follow his wife Cherie by bringing forward his memoirs is wide of the mark, I’m told. Last Friday night, Team Brown…

By Andrew Grice Gordon Brown is trying to make a virtue out of his remarkable U-turn over the 10p tax rate. Interviewed on BBC’s Today programme this morning, he argued that the £2.7bn tax cut announced on Tuesday was to…

By Andrew Grice A good, if predictable, line of attack from David Cameron in Prime Minister’s Questions just now. He accused Gordon Brown of not “being straight” with the British people over the election that never was (nothing to do…

“He is saddened but resilient,” is how one close ally sums up Gordon Brown’s mood. “He’s been around a long time; he’s pretty tough. He’ll just carry on. He’s not going to walk away.”

Gordon Brown, Ken Livingstone and 300 Labour councillors were not the only casualties of the local and London elections. No one seems to have noticed, but the other big losers were those people who care about the environment.