Across the pond

Gordon Brown triumphed at last night’s meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

How?

Although this meeting had been headlined in the press as the crucial test, the Government held it in the usual room, which is nowhere big enough for all the PLP even if they are all standing.

The Government whips told all the office holders amongst Labour MPs, numbering well over a hundred, who get extra money on top of their £64,000 salaries, and or/influence, that they should go.

Which they did, so that even some busy cabinet ministers who came at the last minute courld not get in.

So the meeting not only cheered. It drummed the table. Bolstering up their limping leader.