First Secretary of State and Lord President of the Council, the Baron Mandelson, of Foy in the county of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the county of Durham (aka, the next PM) penned a devastating critique of Gordon Brown’s character, labelling him “insecure”, “self-conscious” and “angry”, according to leaked e-mails..
Heard he was quite handy with a Sammy. Word has it, he gets through more printers than TheBoy. 
How can Brown survive all this?
By ignoring it. He seems to honestly believe that he is the only person who can "lead the country through this" so he shoves his head in the sand and assumes it'll all go away.
Fact of the matter is, nobody is leading the country through anything because the govertnment is finished.
Kevin
By ignoring it.Correct Kevin and because the majority on the front bench are gutless self-seeking incompetents, he will continue to do so.
Fact of the matter is, nobody is leading the country through anything Nor have they been for some considerable time. The result has been a country left to fester from an open wound from which there with be no immediate recovery.
They have destroyed the credibility of government and of the official cadre, a tawdry, useless, partisan, totalitarian, manipulative, slimy and utterly unpleasant legislature if ever there was one.