UK - Last ever Labour government? It should be.

Alistair Darling has revealed his frustration at the collapse in Labour morale under Gordon Brown, accusing his party - from the prime minister down - of handing power to the Tories without a fight.

On the eve of what many MPs believe could be Labour's final conference as a governing party for a decade, the normally restrained chancellor delivers a stinging rebuke to the entire Labour hierarchy, which he says appears to have lost "the will to live", and warns that a Conservative government would "crash the economy"

In another sign of the party's woes, a leading Labour thinktank warns today that Brown could be running the "last ever Labour government".

Compass argues that unless the prime minister offers a referendum on electoral reform, Labour will suffer defeat followed by the loss of dozens more seats soon after, as Scotland opts for independence and David Cameron reduces the size of the Commons. The result could be a party with 130 seats incapable of mounting a challenge for power

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