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AS MPs return today for a crucial debate on Alistair Darling's Budget, senior Tories are suddenly talking about Gordon Brown suffering a John Major-style landslide defeat at the next general election.
"The mercury is whistling down the pipe," says a frontbencher who's been in the Commons since 1992. "We think Brown's safe until he calls an election, but from now on he will be 'in office but not in power', as Norman Lamont said of Major in 1993. We now believe we can beat Brown by a landslide, perhaps exceeding Tony Blair's in 1997. Things are moving very fast".See the full content of this document
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Out in a Flash Gordon ; the Londoner's Diary
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