Gordon Brown will not resign as leader of the Labour party, deputy party leader Harriet Harman insisted today.
Ms Harman was commenting amid continued speculation about plots to oust Mr Brown. She admitted Britain had “not seen the best” of him since he arrived at Number 10.
But, speaking after more bad opinion poll ratings fuelled doubts over his future, Ms Harman said he was the “solution, not the problem”.
When asked if she thought the Prime Minister would be forced to resign, Ms Harman told GMTV: “No I don’t. I have got a great deal of confidence in Gordon Brown, having worked with him for 25 years.
“I can recognise that I don’t think the British people have seen the best of him yet as Prime Minister. But the reason I so strongly support him is because the big problems people are facing in this country at this moment are the economy, the cost of fuel and food prices.
“And I think Gordon Brown, more than anybody, has done more over the last 10 years to make people better off.”
She added that many of the problems had arisen from the international economic downturn.
One survey showed more than one in five Labour supporters thought Opposition leader David Cameron would make a better Prime Minister while another gave the Tories a 19-point lead.
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