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Last Modified: 11 May 2008
By: Lucy Manning

Gordon Brown will attempt again this week to launch a fight back against the growing criticisms of his leadership.

The prime minister will publish a draft Queen's speech programme for the autumn, featuring new plans on schools and the health service.

But with polls showing Labour heading for possible defeat in the Crewe by-election, the last thing Gordon Brown needed was a spate of political memoirs focussing on his fraught relations with his predecessor.