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Last Modified: 14 Sep 2008
By: Victoria Macdonald

Senior cabinet ministers have rallied behind Gordon Brown as more backbench MPs joined calls for a leadership contest.

But the Foreign secretary David Miliband, who has been tipped as a potential successor to the Prime Minister, was not among them.

He threw his support behind Mr Brown although he admitted these are very challenging times for the Labour party.