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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982
* JAMES PURNELL SAYS LABOUR CAN STILL WIN: “We only need to go back to the values of the early Labour movement”.
* PETER MANDELSON’S POSITION IN POLITICS IS UNPRECEDENTED, writes Bruce Anderson in the Independent
* EACH PLOT HAS BEEN LESS CONVINCING THAN THE LAST, says William Rees-Mogg in the Times.
* PAUL RICHARDS PREDICTS THE ATMOSPHERE AT TONIGHT’S PLP MEETING.
* CHARLIE BROOKER TAKES A MORE WHIMSICAL VIEW and comes up with four pleges Labour should make.
* WE CAN BEAT THEM, WE MUST BEAT THEM, the PM is likely to say at tonight’s PLP meet.
* A DOUBLE DIP RECESSION REMAINS POSSIBLE, writes David Blanchflower in this week’s New Statesman.
* THE GUARDIAN LEADER goes over the importance of opening up the House of Commons to a wider selection of people.
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