Morning must-reads

Mary Riddell says that Gordon Brown deserves to win his fight for survival…

…but Rachel Sylvester says that Gordon Brown is finished – and the Labour Party might be too.

A Labour campaign document suggests a date for the next general election.

Brown wants to change Labour’s position on 24-hour drinking to woo middle class voters.

The police and a local authority “left feral families to terrorise mother and disabled daughter”.

Jack Welsh says that Gordon Brown is a “dead man walking” and “looks like a failing businessperson on [the] way out”.

And it’s not just our head of government who’s getting stick. Pop singer Andy Williams says: “Obama is following Marxist theory. He’s taken over the banks and the car industry. He wants the country to fail.”

Posted by Alex Singleton