Chancellor Gordon Brown today suffered another setback to his leadership hopes as children’s toy stores across the country refused to stock his new ‘Gordon’ party playtime doll. Said retail spokesperson, Mandy Simmonds: ‘We’ve conducted the usual tests and we’ve discovered it just isn’t suitable for any kind of party.’ The Chancellor had hoped that the toy would help soften the image he’s built up as the ‘Iron Chancellor’. ‘Well perhaps they shouldn’t have made it of iron,’ added Miss Simmonds. ‘This thing could damage a child’s foot if they dropped it.’ The toy weighs in at a heft fourteen stone but stands only fifteen inches high, causing some in Downing Street to mistake it for the Deputy PM.

Meanwhile, Tony Blair refused to endorse the Chancellor’s doll, citing his own range of the Bendy Tony doll as the preferred choice for parties everywhere. ‘I mean, come on guys. Just twist its arm and it’ll do anything you ask.’

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