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Forget talk of an early election

Andrew Neil | 10:44 UK time, Tuesday, 27 January 2009

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"Faith in Brown collapses as Tories take lead on economy" -- when even the starts running headlines like that then you know the government is in trouble.

The daily drumbeat of grim economic news would take its toll on any incumbent and the Brown government is as vulnerable as any.

The puts the Tories on 44% and Labour on 32%. It's not clear what will change that in the months ahead.

You can forget talk of an early election. This parliament is set to run its course.

On top of his economic problems the PM now has a full-blown .

On the show today we'll look at the pressure building for new rules for the House of Lords after the allegations that were offering to 'change laws for cash' ( any wrongdoing).

Today the leader of the Liberal Democrats calls for a new power to bar peers from sitting in the House of Lords, to be used in extreme cases if they are found to have breached the rules. We've got the latest.

Also on the show today - the Government wants to give new powers to civil servants to enable them to take the of absent parents who refuse to make child maintenance payments to their former partners. Is that enough of a sanction?

rosen.jpgWriter and broadcaster will be here too, talking about the decline of our public libraries.

And hedge fund bosses will be questioned by MPs in the Treasury over their role in the financial crisis - we'll have the highlights from that.

All that from noon on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ2 today on the .

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