Be afraid...

He paused thoughtfully, then, with no hint of a smile, and peering over his spectacles in apparent incredulity, observed: “ You don’t think a little thing like losing a general election is going to stop Gordon Brown, do you?” Whether, by “stop”, Mr Mandelson meant stop Mr Brown from carrying on as Labour leader, or stop him from carrying on as Prime Minister, he did not say.

Parris.