Mad Hattie

Having met her once and seen her perform in the Commons it boggles my mind that Harriet Harman could have a hope of leading Labour.

The papers today are stuffed with stories about her positioning herself to take over from Brown after an election defeat.

But as we saw with the Tories after they imploded in the 90s political parties do funny things in the wake of a beating.

Alan Johnson would be a sounder, certainly less irritating candidate.