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From the BBC:

The Labour Party has moved to see off an attempt by 12 rebel MPs to force a challenge to Gordon Brown’s leadership.

Its ruling National Executive Committee has rejected calls to get nomination forms sent out to all Labour MPs before next week’s party conference.

Whoever is trying to prevent any prospect of a Labour Leadership Challenge has decided that they are not even willing to give a show of allowing MPs to raise the question.

I have read Alan Watkins since the 1970s - first in the Observer, and then the Independent, and he has commented at length over many years on the rules for replacing the Labour leader. The current set make it - to put it mildly - incredibly difficult. These rules were put in place in the mid-1990s as part of a gradual centralisation of power within Labour carried out by the Blair-Brown-Mandelson axis to make it difficult for anybody but “Us” to assert themselves against “The Project”.

If Mr Brown and his friends are seriously looking for a renewed Labour Party, then relying on this rulebook from the past to shush the dissenters is not the way to do it.

Things have just changed gear
With less than a week to go until the start of the Labour party conference, the leadership debate has been ratcheted up a notch or two. After a very quiet summer, that led the BBC’s Nick Robinson to say the leadership debate was dead, things have really started to get [...]

For the good of the country, something must give
It has all gone a bit quiet on the domestic political front. The focus of the media is on Beijing and Georgia, while the focus of most of our MPs will be looking out to sea on their holidays.

But one story remains. Gordon Brown’s leadership. Nick Raynsford [...]

What next?
The cat is out the bag. Glasgow East was the tipping for Labour and no longer can they pretend nothing is wrong. Gordon Brown is under fire from all quarters, including his cabinet behind the scenes. But what should they be plotting to actually do? After all, while it might be the majority of [...]

And relax…
Finally summer is upon us and that can only mean one thing – our MPs are off on their holidays. Gordon is off to Southwold in Suffolk while Alastair Darling is off to the Outer Hebrides – I know! What is wrong with these two? At least Dominic Grieve isn’t trying to be all [...]

The Labour party, after yet another worst case scenario week, now faces a stark choice: to hang on to their leader or to dump him.
This boils down to a simple test – is Brown the best option for Labour to win the next election? To answer this you have to understand what the options are [...]