Having staked his prestige on a cut-costs solution to the admission of Gurkhas to the United Kingdom - a shameful, squalid move designed to limit as many as possible from qualifying - our stumbling Prime Minister found himself on the wrong end of a humiliating defeat yesterday, only the third vote the Government has lost since 1997. The worrying thing for Brown is that the defeat was ensured not just by the Conservatives and Liberals voting together but by a sizeable number of Labour MPs who defied the Prime Minister's strictures and voted against him.
This really is the panic button for Gordon. The bells are tolling for Mr Brown's stewardship of the United Kingdom and he appears to be losing more respect and authority by the day. And today there is a vote on his proposals over MPs expenses. He must be shaking in his shoes
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