Early on a dull Saturday morning at King's Cross Station in London, Gordon Brown was hurried like a fugitive by Special Branch officers into an economy class carriage of a train whose final destination was Edinburgh. But this journey was no homecoming for him: we were entering the final week of the campaign, with Labour trailing desperately in third place in most polls.
Brown must have felt as if he was making his last, long journey as Prime Minister, and yet if he believed that these were indeed the final days of his premiership, he was not saying. He declined all opportunity to discuss what might happen in the event of a hung parliament or of a small overall Conservative majority, merely asserting, again and again, that he was "fighting for a Labour majority", and warning about the dangers that Conservative economics posed to the recovery.
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