"Going over the top" - Gordon would love to but his diary is full that day.
Brown gambles on Scottish election campaign | Uk News | News | Telegraph
Gordon Brown will today place himself at the head of Labour's campaign for the Scottish Parliament elections - despite warnings from MPs that a poor result could dent his leadership ambitions....
Some Labour MPs believe Mr Brown risks opening the door to a challenge by a leading Labour figure such as David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, if he identifies himself too strongly with unsuccessful campaigns north and south of the Border.
Mr Miliband has suggested in private that he may challenge the Chancellor, but only if the local election campaigns in England and polls for the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly go disastrously.
Sources close to Mr Brown denied that he would take a low key role in the elections.
"Gordon is very much involved," one source said. "He has been instrumental in devising the entire strategy on how to make the economic case against the Nationalists.
"There is no truth whatsoever to suggestions that he will be taking a back seat."
Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. He needs to show the ABG crowd he has the balls to be a leader, but he is desperate to avoid being identified too closely with what he will call Jack Whatshisnames election, just as it will be Tony's Local elections; at least the failures will be, the rare successes will be purely down to his masterful deployment of economic data....