Especially so if in the time the nation is obliged to wait before the Prime Minister is forced to call a General Election, David Cameron and the Conservatives make good on their promise to come up with some workable policies.

Even if the economy revives between now and then, the inadequacies of Brown when Chancellor and his successor at the Treasury, Alistair Darling, will neither be forgiven nor forgotten.

From the tax raid on the UK's pension funds in 1997 right up to date with the Northern Rock debacle, Labour has sold the public short either by cock-up or conspiracy. Sometimes it has been a combination of both.

The U-turn forced by the Party's own backbenchers triggered by the scrapping of the 10 per cent tax band is only the latest example of how out of touch Brown has become.

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