Labour launch an insurgency campaign.

Gordon Brown: we are the insurgents now.

Admitting the odds are against him and his party, he said: "I accept we are the insurgents, we are not the incumbents."

Distasteful.

"Everything has been hard. My life has been about fighting against difficulties that sometimes appear insuperable."

Bollocks. Apart from health matters many of Brown's difficulties have been of his own making.

"Sun readers, when they get a chance to hear what we are saying on anti-social behaviour, on cancer, they will see that this is very much in line with the mainstream middle of this country."

Surely Sun readers, like most of the rest of us, have been waiting 12 years for headway to be made on these issues.

"I am as open and honest as possible. I don't parade my family around the place. I came from a pretty ordinary background in Scotland."

You're not. You do (including the dead one). You don't.

In a BBC television interview, Mr Brown said that his economic policies have not yet paid off, but when they do, Labour's position will improve. "When people see that the action we took, which was quite unique, they will be able to see results."

But you've already claimed to have saved the world. What more is there to come? Presumably all the results are scheduled for 'after the election' and if the nasty Tories get in will somehow be derailed or destroyed. If there are results to be had and they are set in stone a change of Government won't put them at risk.

In his speech to the conference on Tuesday, he pledged voters will be given the power to throw out MPs who break the rules under a series of reforms designed to win back public support in the wake of the expenses scandal.

Only after a quango gives us permission to recall an MP that is.

"However, he failed to address substantially the question of Britain’s growing public debt and the continuing impact of the recession.

In a repeat of last year’s conference appearance, Sarah Brown, the Prime Minister’s wife, introduced her husband, hailing him as “my hero”."

Reheat. Repeat. Rehash. Even homes for harlots is a decade old plan.