"Can Sarah Brown save Labour?" The Guardian asks. The answer, as in so many things, can be found in history. Sarah Brown is just as likely to save Labour as Norma Major was to save the last Tory government.

She can stand next to her husband, the Prime Minister, on the sinking ship. And she can frantically try yet fail to distract attention from her husband as the Good Ship Nu Labour sinks under the icy waters of electoral oblivion.