Ex-home secretary says (I quote), he would "urge a leadership contest". He also said, there are "five or six people of quality" who wold make good candidates. He then went on to say, "many, many, many, people" shared his concerns.

So does, "Labour face utter destruction at the next election"? I thinks so because I'm Conservative, but could this make more of Labour think about what Mr Clarke said?

But I think the real question is; Is Gordon Brown going to keep his job? Please speak your mind on that one.

What do you think and what would you like to see?
Is it not just a fight against my party but your own?
And who do you think would be stronger, Brown or someone else?

Labour have now introduced stamp duty on properties costing 175 000 or less. That would mean half of all properties sold would have stamp duty on them.

The successes of Team GB at the Beijing Olympics have ensured that Gordon's summer has been a good deal better than it might have been. If he can keep his nerve and if he is prepared to grasp a few nettles then the golden rays of summer may just shine through to the autumn and beyond.

Here are 3 popular and populist things that Gordon should, in my humble estimation, seriously consider implementing as part of an autumn fightback:

1. He should go back to the future and rediscover the radicalism that as Chancellor saw him slap a £5bn windfall tax on privatised utilities in 1997 to fund job schemes. Yes Gordon you really should introduce a windfall tax on the energy companies. Such a levy would demonstrate whose side we are on and draw some important red lines between ourselves and the Tories.

2. Announce a Royal Commission into the effects of academic selection on standards and social exclusion (similar to the one held in Northern Ireland - which recommending the ending of selection at age 11). This would force the Tories to defend existing selection and challenge Cameron's claim that the Tories are the true party of progress.

3. Follow the Welsh and put an end to hospital car park charges - believe me when I tell you that this would be very well received in many parts of the nation and would give a concrete example of how fairness needs to be at the centre of public policy.

So what do you think? Too simplistic? Too radical or not radical enough?

The Telegraph has published an article about how the Miliband/Milburn suggestion has derailed Milibands leadership campaign.

Blair slams 'vacuous' Brown in leaked note

The Guardain

· PM accused of 'lamentable confusion'
· Memo escalates Labour's civil war

"Tony Blair accused Gordon Brown of generating 'hubris and vacuity' in a devastating private memo analysing his mistakes, which last night threatened to blow a hole in the heart of government.

The former prime minister believed his successor had presided over a 'lamentable confusion of tactics and strategy', attacking Blair's record instead of building on it and failing to spell out an agenda for the future, according to the scathing note penned after last September's chaotic Labour party conference. Such tactics would not win the next election, he concluded.

The note leaked to the Mail on Sunday newspaper now threatens to trigger open warfare within New Labour, with its emergence so soon after David Miliband's broadside against the Prime Minister which was seen as part of an orchestrated plot to destabilise Brown by those loyal to his predecessor.

There is one reason why Miliband is the only person who can credibly challenge Brown from within the cabinet.