Article: Brown can't change - that's why he must go ; Encouraged by Downing Street loyalists, the Prime Minister still believes he can survive. But his biographer is convinced this is now an impossibility

THE PICTURES say it all.

Gordon Brown, supposedly relaxing on his Suffolk holiday, looks tense and uncomfortable; David Cameron, strolling barefoot with his wife on a Cornish beach, appears happy and natural.

Brown is palpably out of touch with the rest of Britain on holiday; he is isolated from reality. Even after the disaster of the Glasgow East by-election, he does not believe anything has fundamentally changed. Encouraged by loyalists in the Downing Street bunker, he believes his survival and eventual re-election are possible. Yet for those beyond the bunker, Brown is now nothing more than a salesmen with nothing left to sell.

Brownism was always about camouflage.

Ever since he arrived ...

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