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Article: Could Mr Brown be the last Prime Minister of Great Britain? Triumphant: Scottish Nationalist Party leader Alex Salmond.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 26, 2008
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Byline: PETER OBORNE
TWO consequences, both of huge importance, flow from yesterday's historic byelection victory for the Scottish National Party in Glasgow East.
The first, and most obvious, concerns Gordon Brown. The Prime Minister has been dealt another terrible, wounding blow. The Labour defeat, which was not predicted until the very last moment within the disastrously out-of-touch British political establishment, places Brown's premiership for the first time into genuine doubt.
It guarantees that a question mark will surround Gordon Brown's leadership all summer, dominate Labour's conference in early autumn, and probably reach some kind of ...