The Times says her career is ruined.  She could of course try to redeem herself by doing the right thing.  She could pay back the money she fiddled…

Bit late with this.  Can’t understand why Tory spokesmen don’t make this point more often – Labour thought cutting inheritance tax was such a bad idea that they copied it. Doh!

Kay Burley’s face says what the whole country is thinking…

Is he really going to keep his cool in a TV debate?  He says he has made his mind up, so why doesn’t he say if he will do a debate and when he will do a debate?  Dithering won’t make the issue go away…

UPDATE : The Sun says “Brown Goes into TV Meltdown“, the Daily Mail says “Is He Cracking Up?“

He got slaughtered on BBC Breakfast as well:

Well Labour is in third place in the polls, with Brown having failed to take the Tory lead apart. Blair’s advice from his valedictory conference speech was quite clear…

Gordon denied it in unclear terms.

UPDATE : Who Will Ask the Prime Minister? was Guido’s question earlier this month.  All credit to Andrew Marr, who has often been criticised by Guido for pulling his punches in interviews with Gordon Brown. 

Gordon looked furious.

UPDATE II : James Forsyth and Sam Coates both question whether it was right to ask the Prime Mentalist if he was on pills, Guido suspects they don’t think it right.  However there are not only persistent rumours going around about Gordon’s mental health, there are also rumours and speculation (even in the Spectator and Times) that he will be removed from the leadership in a choreographed ill health waltz off into the sunset.  Gordon was given a chance to slap those rumours down.  After the Charles Kennedy cover-up the Lobby needs to get these issues out into the open instead of worry about getting the cold shoulder from a Downing Street press officer.  Bravo Marr.

UPDATE III : Strangely Guido is unable to find the clip on the BBC site so this is courtesy of ToryBear -

This is brilliant.

“The Prime Minister, an Economist and a Banker bear the full brunt of the Elephant in the Room during Question Time. Economic collapse can make your eyes water.”

“Debt is dandy”.

Remember Fraser Nelson pleading with the Prime Mentalist to tell the truth?

The tape doesn’t lie.  Unlike Gordon.

UPDATE 23.10 : Newsnight’s David Grossman has just run this pooled clip, without the Sky overlays. If you look carefully you can spot Grossman smirking in the front row.