A MERSEYSIDE politician who was among a so-called “Lancashire Mafia” of MPs who supported calls for Gordon Brown to face a leadership contest last night announced:”Hostilities are over”.
George Howarth, who represents Knowsley North and Sefton East, had said of Mr Brown: "He's so unpopular that no one can remember a time since Neville Chamberlain, after Hitler invaded Norway, that anyone was so unpopular."
He said that the timing of the revolt against the Prime Minister was “in many ways appalling” but said that “wasn't of our making”.
But he had a change of heart after Mr Brown rallied Labour MPs with a call for “unity and determination” after a summer dominated by speculation about a possible leadership challenge.
As MPs returned to Westminster after the summer break, the Prime Minister told a packed meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party they needed to go out and win the argument on the economy.
