Last week's disastrous by-election result for British Labour, when it lost the previously third safest Scottish seat of Glasgow East to the Scottish national Party (SNP), has added yet more pressure on the affable yet seemingly disaster-prone UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Following on from the equally bad result at the 2008 Henley by-election, and a series of mishaps and missteps by the previously rock-solid Labour administration, the notoriously hard to please British press have sniffed blood and are baying for the Labour leader's resignation.

The Guardian sums up the press reaction since the by-election loss in this article.

Gordon Brown and the Labour party have also taken a hammering amongst voters with the latest YouGov opinion polls for the Daily Telegraph showing 74 per cent of voters dissatisfied with Mr Brown, against just 15 per cent describing themselves as satisfied. Only 26 percent supported Labour, down two percentage points from the last survey.