Its football teams having all failed to qualify for the European Championships, Britain’s national sport for the next few weeks will be to name Brown’s challenger and/or successor.
A reasonable way of going about finding that brave Labour MP is to identify those cabinet ministers whose seat is most in danger.
The most marginal seat held by a cabinet minister is Bolton West – Ruth Kelly’s majority is only 2,064 (5.1%).
Jacqui Smith’s position isn’t much better: her majority in Redditch is just 2,716 (6.7 %). Both are going to be wiped out if something big does NOT happen between now and the spring of 2010.
Tags: Bolton West, Gordon Brown's challenger, Jacqui Smith, Redditch, Ruth Kelly
