Also in today's Observer, buried toward the end of another Brown post-mortem comes an optimistic suggestion that would- if true- see him begin to do what many have been crying out for:
"Friends are speculating that the spectre of defeat may just convince Brown to throw caution to the winds. There is talk, already, of creating a legacy.
'He might just think, "I'm not going to win, so for the next two years I will do what I really want" - the things he was frightened of last year - and tell people why he's different from Blair,' says one source. 'The most wounding criticism from Crewe was people saying "we thought he was different from Blair, and he's exactly the same".'
