Brown and I united, insists Blair (BBC News)

A very good use of an apparent disadvantage here between Brown and Blair. Without this clash, their speeches (and therefore their agendas) wouldn’t have got nearly such wide coverage. And the clash doesn’t really damage them, it’s always been fairly clear that there’s a rift of some kind between Blair and Brown and this just adds fuel to the speculation. A very Blairite media manipulation, if you ask me.