The oddest, and potentially most significant, story in the Sunday papers is the Tories claim—reported in the Mail on Sunday—that two senior Labour people, including a current cabinet minister, passed on information to them about Brown, Balls and the Smith Institute. The two Labour sources apparently pushed the Tories to see whether the relationship was illegal.
This claim is bound to increase the paranoia levels in Downing Street. If it is true and not just pys ops by the Tories, then it is testament to how bitterly personal of the divisions in the Labour party are. But it should be remembered that the information was passed to the Tories in 2006, so before Brown became Prime Minister.
Guido is promising more on this story next week.
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