Beatlemania may be one of the few forms of madness not to assail the Government. Nonetheless the re-release of the Fab Four's greatest hits holds messages for Number 10. After the worst autumn start imaginable, Gordon Brown's critics could just as well be describing Nowhere Man.
"Doesn't have a point of view, Knows not where he's going to." The first point is unfair and the second inaccurate, not least since most Labour MPs have little doubt as to their destination. On current form, they are heading for what the influential backbencher Jon Cruddas, terms "catastrophic defeat".
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