Singh Leeds ,we don't know if the nationalisation of NR has worked yet! They still owe the government billions and if house prices fall they won't be able to pay it back. Gordo has saved face but it is by no means certain that he has saved the country ! the taxpayer hasn't been given the bill yet.

Neal, Reading,

GB was ahead in the polls in summer 2007 then came the northern rock saga, correct me if i'm wrong but didn't the tories oppose the nationalization of the rock and slated Brown and Darling for being left wing nuts. So it turns out brown was right all along and it seems the U.S and Europe think that.

singh, leeds, uk

All Brown has done is thrown taxpayers money at a problem he helped cause so he does not deserve any accolades for that. If pundits think he has recovered ground then it's way past time the electorate was invited to comment and that means an early General Election.

R J Cook, Welwyn Garden City, England

Gordon Brown for Chancellor.
Alistair Darling for PM.

Ivan de Nemethy, London, Murder Mile

Would Cameron and Osborne be doing anything different, or even as much, if they were in power instead of Brown? I think not. In fact, the latest accusation from them of Brown's "triumphalism" sounds suspicially like sour grapes to me, since a glowing spotlight is on him and not them.

K Philips, London, UK

Graham Bromley. Have you forgotten that Gordon Brown was in the treasury for 10 years? If Thatcher is to blame (18 years after she left office) then surely Brown doing nothing for a decade to her reforms means he is also culpable? Brown's inaction on these reforms means he agreed with them.

KGE, Chelmsford, England

It's a bit early to be assessing the political landscape. However - if you insist.......Labour's strategy is - one step at a time. Get nearer to the Tories in the polls and that sets the scene for the roughest, dirtiest scrap in uk political history. Why do you think Campbell and Mandleson are back?

John , Leeds, UK

Total rubbish. Brown does not deserve a second chance. he MAY have retrieved the situation he helped create, but don't forget hos dumb policies helped put us into recession before the credit crunch became today's crisis.

Neil Murphy, Cromer,

I don't think anyone will understand your view about McBroon getting a "second chance" - a second chance at what? He's had a thousand chances and made a mess continuously.
Do you keeping engaging a tradesman who continually does a bad job and keeps increasing his rates?
No more chances !!

Padraig, Perth, Australia

so let me get this right keithw, the crash in the rest of the world is the fault of Gordon Brown? are you for real? smell the coffee. The loosening of the fiscal rules re borrowing started under thatcher, before her you needed a deposit to buy anything on credit, no deposit, no finance.

Graham Bromley, Rotherham, South Yorks

Keep taking the medication if you beleive that. Having to take desperate measure to try to fix something you helped ruin, will not get any stay of execution for this totally inept Governement.
If it did the people of the Uk deserve all they get repeated like the last 10 years.

KeithW, Wirral, UK