After Haltemprice and Howden and the House of Lords debate it's likely that 42 days is as dead as Gordon Brown's premiership, given a gentle nudge by David Davis and then bludgeoned repeatedly by Goldsmith, Falconer and, most damningly, Lady Manningham-Buller. Now he's back in the Commons, my guess is that Davis will end up more of a threat to David Cameron than to Brown - a tub-thumping, pain in the arse Benn to his hold-the-centre Callaghan. Which is not to say New Labour's off the hook: with opinion polls swinging against their look tough gimmick and the Ulster Unionists already paid off with a billion-pound bribe, this bill's set to bounce around for a long while yet.
Where it will hopefully hit several Labour ministers smack between the eyes.
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