Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's chief of staff, once said that Gordon Brown was like a character in a Shakespearean tragedy because he would never achieve his ambition to become Prime Minister. It could be worse than that. He could end up as the Labour leader who reached No 10 and failed, forced out before even having the chance to fight a general election.
We will know within days - possibly within hours - whether Mr Brown will survive or whether he will end up as what Roy Jenkins once described damningly as a “tail-end Charlie” PM, hanging on to the coat tails of Mr Blair.
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