. >> caroline flint just resigned yet last night she came out and gave you her full support. what does that say about the support for other ministers, are they going to resign now? >> she was and has been a very good minister. >> caroline flint is a very close friend of the former communities secretary who resigned wednesday. the pair shared the view that

caroline flint given extremely supportive interview. it seemed like she was expecting promotion. her resignation letter was devastating. she wrote, you have a two-tier government, your inner circle and the remainder of cabinets. she said that several of the women attending cabinet have been treated by u.s. little more than female window dressing. she went on, i am a natural party loyalists. you have strained every sinew of that loyalty. the prime minister have told -- said that he was told by his father to always tell the truth. they came very close to accusing him of lying. >> you said you're going to be candid, you are not being candid. everyone in this room knows that you wanted -- that that is what you wanted to do. all of your closest aides said you wanted to sack the chancellor. at the last minute, you have not been able to do it. >> the fact is, many journalists in the room will tell you that they had received such a briefing from #10 sources that alistair darling was finished. gordon brown has a reputation for giving somewhat boring press conferences. not this one. this i

. >> caroline flint just resigned yet last night she came out and gave you her full support. what does that say about the support for other ministers, are they going to resign now? >> she was and has been a very good minister. >> caroline flint is a very close friend of the former communities secretary who resigned wednesday. the pair shared the view that she had been very harshly treated by the prime minister. >> but under we understand extreme pressure from downing street, carolines let last night getting very supported interview effectively killing off speculation she was about to resign. it seemed like she was expecting promotion. a resignation letter was devastating. she wrote to the prime minister you have a two-tier government. your inner circle and then the remainder of cabinet. several other women she said attending cabinet, myself included, have been treated by you as little more than female windowdressing. she went on, i am a natural party loyalist. you have strained every sinew of that loyalty. meanwhile, back at a press conference the prime minister told reporter

of those improprieties and folks like caroline flint and others, including the former defense secretary, margaret beckett, i believe, has had some issues and tax reimbursements. both cameron and gordon brown have had to come up and it has hurt him. >> this is what part -- record and brown said. "to be honest, i'm not interested in what companies being in power. i would worry if i never returned to those places, down the street, checkers, and it probably be good for my children." he went on to say that labour could win the next election. >> he has to say that last statement. it does not say that, he would be justified in getting a new leader. it is very hard to be at the tail end of a long issue like this. it is now brown after blair. the party is exhausted. there tends to be more corruption at the pet to a level. they have been in power too long. it is very hard to be a leader showing bigger to the nation at that point. der that shows vigor to the nation at that point. brown has played his hand remarkably badly, including that line about fighting on. obviously much less heroic in church

ok, caroline foot, but she was not in the -- carolyn flint, but she was not in the cabinet. >> she says, with her arm on her back. >> yes. what is clear from this is that we are not going to get a coup from within the cabinet. on the other side of the coin, will there be some kind of coup from the back benches of? it seems clearer and clearer that there is a lack of coordination among the backbench rebels. they are less confident now that aaron johnson is an alternative waiting in the wings now that he has been promoted. if gordon brown goes, that means an earlier election and that will lose their seats. i think that borden is in a stronger position than he was last night. -- i think that gordon brown is in a stronger position now that he was last night. >> there are a few other problems for gordon brown. >> yes, the daily telegraph is back on the expenses trail again. it is said that he claimed expenses on two different properties simultaneously. downing street says that these expenses have gone into and have been cleared by the house of commons and checked by the fis office. for any a