Papers pondering Brown's future

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Speculation about the prime minister's leadership continues to provide fodder for the papers with the Times declaring that <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6216691.ece">"Operation Save Gordon"</a> has begun.

It says Gordon Brown has turned to Lord Mandelson and Ed Balls to beef up his internal support operation.

Ex-party leader Neil Kinnock tells the Guardian <a class="inlineText" href="either url here">in-fighting risks boosting the BNP vote</a> in the European elections.

In the Sun, <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/columnists/kavanagh/article2410279.ece">Trevor Kavanagh writes</a> that the cabinet, the party and the whole country is sick to death of Mr Brown.

According to the Daily Mail <a class="inlineText" href="either url here">few expect a formal challenge to Gordon Brown</a> but some plotters are hoping he will step down, amid a welter of criticism.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/">Daily Mirror</a> calls on cabinet ministers to adopt a vow of silence, but it says the buck stops at the top.

It reports that Alan Johnson is seen as someone to unite the party.

The Daily Telegraph says <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/gordon-brown/5269662/Harriet-Harman-to-fight-for-leadership-if-Gordon-Brown-is-forced-out.html">deputy leader Harriet Harman is vowing to stand for the position</a> herself - her office later rubbished the idea.

Princess mugged

The Daily Mirror reports that <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/04/nine-crashes-a-day-caused-by-police-exclusive-115875-21330169/">police are responsible for an average of nine road crashes a day.</a>

The Daily Express highlights figures suggesting <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/98847">a proposed amnesty allowing illegal immigrants to stay in the UK</a> would cost £1m for each newcomer.

The Sun's lead story is that <a class="inlineText" href="either url here">Princess Eugenie and her friends have been mugged</a> while travelling in Cambodia.

It says two royal protection officers rugby-tackled a bandit, but the thief ran away with Eugenie's purse.

Party over?

Few European leaders have the knack for survival of Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.

But the Times says the image of the <a class="inlineText" href="http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article6216852.ece">devoted family man who somehow also played the lothario</a> is over.

It suggests the end of his marriage to Veronica Lario has left him trapped.

The Guardian says his wife <a class="inlineText" href="either url here">couldn't stay with a man who attended the birthday party of an 18-year-old aspiring TV presenter</a> but forgot the parties of his own children.