Brown under attack.LABOUR MPs were last night circulating a draft email urging Gordon Brown to stand down. Amid an apparently swelling mutiny mutiny, concerted disobedient or seditious action by persons in military or naval service, or by sailors on commercial vessels. Mutiny may range from a combined refusal to obey orders to active revolt or going over to the enemy on the part of two or more persons. against the Prime Minister, there were reports that up to 100 MPs could be prepared to put their names to it. The email is said to be addressed to Mr Brown, who is already reeling from the announcements of four departures from his Government in the past two days. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. reports, the email states: "We are writing now because we believe that in the current political circumstances you can best serve the interests of the Labour Party by stepping down as Prime Minister." Brown was accused of losing command of his Cabinet after Communities Secretary Hazel Blears quit. In a stormy session of Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons, David Cameron  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. told Mr Brown that her resignation on the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. of
crucial European and local elections was "a direct challenge to his
authority".
And Mr Brown was forced to duck two challenges from the Conservative leader to say whether Chancellor Alistair Darling - widely tipped for the chop in a reshuffle expected within days - would still be in his job in a week's time. Ms Blears announced her resignation in a statement, issued less than two hours before PMQs, which pointedly failed to pay tribute to the Prime Minister or any of his policies. The Salford MP had come under growing pressure over her parliamentary expenses, despite paying back more than pounds 13,000 to HM Revenue and Customs. Her relations with Mr Brown, already damaged by a press article in which she appeared to mock his YouTube video, had been poisoned further by the PM's description of her failure to pay capital gains tax on the sale of a property on which she had claimed parliamentary second home allowances as "totally unacceptable". Stating her wish to return to grassroots activism, Ms Blears said she wanted to "help the Labour Party to reconnect with the British people See :
British Overseas Territories " - a comment which will be widely interpreted as suggesting that the Brown administration has lost touch with voters.. CAPTION(S): CRISIS DEEPENS...PM Gordon Brown and Hazel Blears |
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