Campbell is recalled to beef up election team

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In another signal that the Prime Minister is determined to unify the party to defeat the Tories, Mr Blair's former director of communications is expected to team up with Peter Mandelson and Douglas Alexander, the party's co-ordinator, to work on the campaign.

Mr Campbell, who helped Mr Brown draft his conference speech last month, will not return to Downing Street fulltime but will play a key "consultant" role, insiders claimed. As well as next year's elections, he will also focus on the general election expected in 2010.

Mr Brown's new Cabinet met formally today for the first time, with Mr Mandelson back at the heart of government for the first time in seven years, as rebel Labour MPs dropped their calls for a new leader. Former minister George Howarth, one of a dozen critics of Mr Brown, told a packed meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party last night that "the hostilities are over".

The party also confirmed 6 November as the date for the Glenrothes byelection, which could see the SNP take a once rock-solid Labour constituency.

Mayor Boris Johnson today said the return of Mr Mandelson as Business Secretary was the Government's "only hope" of preventing firms quitting the City. Mr Campbell, a father of three, says he does not want to "give up having a life" but he is happy to help out when Mr Brown wants him.

He made plain in his published diaries that the 24-hour demands of the No 10 communications job had put huge strain on his family. He is expected to work out of Labour party HQ rather than Downing Street.

Meanwhile, Harriet Harman has complained about the sacking of junior planning minister Parmjit Dhanda. The Labour chairwoman said the loss of the only minister with an Indian background was "bad for the Government".