Article: Labour is finished, whoever is leader. So isn't it time the Tories set out what they really stand for?

Byline: Melanie Phillips

LABOUR is in turmoil.

The Scottish National Party's by-election victory in Glasgow East, hitherto the thirdsafest Labour seat in Scotland and one of the most solid in the country, has produced feverish talk that a leadership challenge to Gordon Brown is now a certainty.

The piranha pool otherwise known as the Parliamentary Labour Party is now a blur of thrashing predators, some raising their jaws from the bloodied waters only to declare, as did Harriet Harman yesterday, that there are no plots against the Prime Minister and Labour is just getting on with governing the country.

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