Forget talk of an early election
"Faith in Brown collapses as Tories take lead on economy" -- when even the Guardian starts running headlines like that then you know the government is in trouble.
The daily drumbeat of grim economic news would take its toll on any incumbent and the Brown government is as vulnerable as any.
The Guardian poll puts the Tories on 44% and Labour on 32%. It's not clear what will change that in the months ahead.
You can forget talk of an early election. This parliament is set to run its course.
On top of his economic problems the PM now has a full-blown sleaze scandal in the Lords.
On the show today we'll look at the pressure building for new rules for the House of Lords after the allegations that four Labour peers were offering to 'change laws for cash' (all four deny any wrongdoing).
Today the leader of the Liberal Democrats calls for a new power to bar peers from sitting in the House of Lords, to be used in extreme cases if they are found to have breached the rules. We've got the latest.
Also on the show today - the Government wants to give new powers to civil servants to enable them to take the passports and driving licences of absent parents who refuse to make child maintenance payments to their former partners. Is that enough of a sanction?
Writer and broadcaster Michael Rosen will be here too, talking about the decline of our public libraries.
And hedge fund bosses will be questioned by MPs in the Treasury Select Committee over their role in the financial crisis - we'll have the highlights from that.
All that from noon on BBC2 today on the Daily Politics.
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