The boy is mine
Blair adds to Brown's tension with Miliband - Telegraph
Rising tensions between Gordon Brown and David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, have threatened to open a new rift at the heart of the Government, it emerged last night.
Relations between them, already rocky after Mr Miliband was forced to tone down a speech about the European Union, are understood to have worsened after comments by Tony Blair began to circulate at Westminster.
Mr Blair went out of his way to praise Mr Miliband, his one-time protégé, who earlier this year considered standing against Mr Brown for the Labour leadership, before pulling out and receiving his plum Cabinet post.
During a visit to Mr Miliband's South Shields constituency last week, the former prime minister said he was very proud of Mr Miliband's achievements and refused to deny that the Foreign Secretary had been his chosen successor.
A source close to Mr Brown denied there had been any briefing against Mr Miliband and insisted last night: "Gordon and David are working together very productively indeed."
They sound like a couple of school prefects arguing over a junior fag, "he likes me more than you..".
As the Brown Leadership unravels expect more of these petty tiffs, especially as Blair enjoys his revenge cold and comes not to praise...