After Glasgow East, is Gordon Brown finished? If so, who should be Labour leader instead?
DEBBIE HARRISON Wigan No he is not finished. It was a bad by-election but the Tories came back from a series of even worse results to win in 1992. What should Labour do to get people back on their side? ALEX SWEETLAND via email We could start by dropping ID cards, scrapping Trident and pulling out of Iraq. We could follow that up by revamping the taxation system to make it fairer, i.e. taking more low-paid people out of the taxation system altogether and putting up taxes on the super-wealthy. Thinking about what happened to the Tories after 1997, would you agree it would be better for Labour to lose the next election? MARK CRAIG Peterborough It is a very dangerous thing to give up on an election. We could be out of power for a generation. Would you call yourself a rebel MP? KATHRYN HART Swindon No. I almost always vote with the Government. I even voted to abolish the 10p tax rate! All I ever seem to hear from you is criticism of the Government. Would you actually prefer the Tories? It
