Brown’s press conference – a rehearsal for by-election defeat?

Gordon Brown at his press conference just now sounded like a man rehearsing his lines for Friday when Norwich North looks like getting a Tory MP.

He said he thought “people do understand the uniqueness of this by-election” in answer (or rather in reply) to a question about why he deselected Ian Gibson.

David Cameron is not planning to be in Norwich for polling day I hear, despite some reports to the contrary. Turnout is still looking like being below 40 per cent according to one senior Tory.