A humble rift

So, it seems that Alistair Darling wasn’t speaking on message when he called for some “humility” from government yesterday.  The Mail reports that Brown was left “fuming” by Darling’s intervention, and there’s much talk of a rift between the PM and his Chancellor.  Brown’s since tried to paper over the cracks, telling Nick Robinson that there’s “always a need for humility”, but he then tore the paper down with this follow-up:

“And the idea … that somehow this is a British problem that was a British government mistake, actually what happened is that round the world, as everybody understands, the whole global financial system seized up.”

To top it all off, the Times picks up on the “deteriorating” relationship between Darling and Peter Mandelson – a claim made by a “senior minister”, but naturally denied by the two men’s offices.