Will labour party members allow gordon clown to stay as party leader after they lose the general election?
There hasn’t been an election yet. One outcome that people seem too willing to dismiss is that Brown may not only be staying on as Labour leader after the election, but there is a very realistic chance he could remain as PM too! The 9% lead would leave the Tories 6 short of a majority, with Cameron as PM. But just one point up for Labour and one down for the Tories, and it would be Brown who leads a minority government, but still very much in Downing Street. The current projected vote share would see Labour lose only 1 seat in Scotland, where the Tories need to make huge inroads. On this form they will fail. IF they lose, I suspect he would remain as leader at least until Labour’s Autumn Conference, when it would be easy to remove him within the party’s constitution, though there would be no rush to remove him immediately. The party would be content to have a new leader in place a year after that, approaching the halfway point of the life of the new parliament. This would give the new
