Sunny:

“On the other hand, it may also be that once he gets to a point where doesn’t like it any more, he may become very bold and really push forward some radical proposals.”

Read Peter Oborne’s book and you will see why this is unlikely. Labour MPs are worried about losing their seats (because that is their money supply gone), so few of them will now support unpopular proposals.

Agreed – this is excellent, and your observation is absolutely spot on:

He seems as if he would be much happier in another role, and I suspect he would trade it all in for an opportunity to become chancellor again; power without the limelight.

Power without the limelight – and power without responsibility to a certain extent. Now he has no-one to take the flak, no-one to blame. It doesn’t help that his Cabinet is so spectacularly weak. Does anyone believe, for example, that Alistair Darling actually wrote the last Budget?

On the other hand, it may also be that once he gets to a point where doesn’t like it any more, he may become very bold and really push forward some radical proposals.

The thing about Brown is also that he’s very much for stability. He can’t be enjoying the media onslaught… but at the same time it has to pass. The media cannot run with a narrative forever. Its the nature of the beast.

That is the question that ought to be exercising Gordon Browns’ brain. Instead he seems to think 42 say detention is the bees knees.

You’ve got to wonder…