I see Mr Brown has given a memo from Philip Gould to the Mirror, and told them it could mean an autumn election (BBC article)

Do we think this is consistent with:

(a) Mr Brown actually planning to hold an election this autumn,

or

(b) Mr Brown wanting to everyone thinking that he’s planning an autumn election, to create confusion and general havoc in other parties’ election planning, and further damage Cameron while he’s vulnerable?

The answer seems pretty clear to me.

I must say I have always been pretty sceptical about the idea. This was confirmed last night when someone told me that he had it (only second or possibly third hand) from someone who was there, that last week’s ‘political’ cabinet meeting at Chequers was entirely focussed on an autumn general election.

In my experience when you think you’ve found out something that you’re not meant to, then generally you were meant to.

(By the way it’s been a long time since I read the Mirror and the stuff they write really is drivel, even apart from fact that their precious memo doesn’t even really say what they claim it does.)