Will Brown resign?

Could this be true?  After the endless debate here and elsewhere, has the mystery now been solved on what will now happen to Our Dear Leader?

Returning to Britain I find our Prime Minister, in at least one deep and mysterious sense, still away. What, when it comes to the release of the Lockerbie bomber, are Gordon Brown’s mental processes? What did he think when — as must have been the case — Scottish proposals to release al-Megrahi were disclosed to him. What did he think of the decision to release the Libyan before the row erupted? What does he think now? I’m reminded of a remark made in what is still the most penetrating book about Margaret Thatcher, One of Us, by the late Hugo Young. Young describes one of her Cabinet ministers: “He had a mind not so much open, as permanently vulnerable to a succession of opposing certainties.”

Weird-sounding to say this, I realise, but I have the strongest of impressions that Mr Brown has already resigned. I’m not sure on what level I mean that — whether perhaps I just mean he is resigned; or that he has taken a mental step still to be followed up by action; or that an agreement has been reached but has yet to be disclosed. But of one thing I’m strangely sure: that in some way, and on some level, Mr Brown has gone.

Could Matthew Parris be right?  Has Brown finally realized the game is up?  Maybe there has been a deal struck over the summer.  There has been enough on this blog on what the Labour party should do.

Let the speculation commence.  Maybe we will get a clue.  Just keep an eye on John Rentoul’s little list.