Reading the third extract from Peter Mandelson's memoirs in The Times today, you come away with the impression that it wasn't just ideology that separated Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. It was class.
"He's like something out of the mafiosi," Blair told Mandy after a particularly fraught meeting with Brown in 2004. "He’s aggressive, brutal, in order to get what he wants… there is no one to match Gordon for someone who articulates high principles while practising the lowest skulduggery.”
Clearly, it wasn't just Brown's agenda that Blair objected to but the savagery with which he tried to enforce it. (To read more, click here.)
