Sunday, April 25, 2010

Labour Party Self-destructs

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Labour's general election campaign is in crisis amid damaging rows between senior cabinet ministers and a new poll showing support for the party dropping to a six-month low.

In one particularly bad-tempered incident, Lord Mandelson ordered Harriet Harman, the party's deputy leader, to "shut up" and told her he did not want to hear from her again, in a dispute over election strategy.

The campaign team has also been riven by in-fighting over what should happen if Labour is only able to cling to power in a hung parliament – with one faction accused of encouraging a Liberal Democrat demand that the price for joining a coalition would be Gordon Brown's dismissal as leader. General Election 2010: Labour civil war as support slumps in new poll >>> Patrick Hennessy and Melissa Kite | Saturday, April 24, 2010