PM defiant despite new calls to quit
Updated on 07 June 2009
To the background of grim news in the Euro elections, Gordon Brown insists he will not walk away. Gary Gibbon reports.
Although they are braced for bad news, some Labour figures are trying to discount tonight's Euro election results as the product of the expenses scandal.
The prime minister's opponents are looking for further ammunition with which to tell him to stand down. But today he looked as immovable as ever.
And this afternoon he warned his backbench critics that he would not be pushed out.
"What would people think... if ever we walked away from them?" he asked a meeting of Labour activists in Newham, east London.
The prime minister is nonetheless bracing himself for bad news when the results of Thursday's European elections are announced later tonight.
Rebel Labour MPs expect a disastrous showing for their party, which will give them the chance to push home their attack on Mr Brown's leadership.
And they are hoping for a showdown at the parliamentary Labour party tomorrow evening.
Deputy leader of the Commons, Chris Bryant MP, talks live to Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
