By KUNA,
London : Gordon Brown was given Sunday his final “wake up call” a leading left-wing Labour MP has warned amid intense speculation over the British Prime Minister’s future.
Jon Cruddas said the Crewe and Nantwich by-election defeat in northern England last week, and disastrous local council election results proved the Labour Party was deaf to voters’ concerns.
“To heal the fractures we have to change”, he told the Independent on Sunday newspaper.
“Until and unless we really work through what is going on here we are going to have a big collusion with the electorate at the next General Election”, he said.
Cruddas, who came third in Labour’s deputy leadership election, was among a number of senior figures who told Brown he had to change.
Labour Peer Lord Desai urged Brown to issue a “put up or shut up” ultimatum to his critics, but predicted no-one would launch a challenge.
“Either we require a changed, improved Gordon Brown to lead us and we still hope for that, or somebody has to say, ‘please for the sake of the party that you love, move over’, but I do not think it is going to happen”, he told the BBC.
Meanwhile, a billionaire Labour donor Lord Paul, who helped bank-roll Brown’s leadership campaign, said the Prime Minister needed to be “much tougher”.
For his part, former Labour minister Frank Field, who led a recent revolt against Brown, called for “heavy hitters” who are close to former British Premier Tony Blair to be restored to the cabinet which is lacking high profile professionals.