The succession to Gordon Brown
May 10th, 2010So Gordon Brown has now bowed to the inevitable, and after all the indignity and humiliations heaped on him by a poisonous right-wing press and hostile polls, we should respect both his past resilience against all the odds and now the dignity of his going. It was clearly the right decision to stand down to pave the way for the root-and-branch renewal of Labour which is now so urgently needed.
