Gordon's last days

Labour plummets into civil war as ministers attack rebel MP Frank Field. When BBC programmes such as Newsnight and The Daily Politics start speculating more on when rather than if the PM will go, then you know the game's pretty much up. I've been saying for the past three weeks that Brown will be out in the autumn. Now it looks like he won't even last the summer. But how will he go? Mike Smithson over at Politicalbetting.com thinks Brown will, as a life-long party man, fall on his sword. Well, there are ways of stepping down and ways of stepping down. Could Brown bear the humiliation of taking on the role of a caretaker PM while his party goes through the process of electing his successor? Or wll Brown take part in the contest himself? Will he simply resign and let Harman take on the caretaker role? Or will he call a general election this year and be done with it?. One thing is certain: this can't go on for much longer.