Look at who else he is talking to

There’s plenty to read between the lines in The Sunday Times interview with Tony Blair. This aside from Blair is particularly interesting: 

 “One thing you could say about me,” he says with a shrug, “is that I have no problem moving on.” And then as an afterthought: “I still talk to David and to Gordon.” Gordon? “Oh yes.”

Rather infuriatingly, it is not specified which David Blair is referring to. But whether it is Cameron or Miliband it is bound to raise the Brownites’ blood pressure that David comes first in the sentence.

On the surface, Blair is loyal to his successor but there appear to be some comparisons being made. Blair keeps stressing how there were other things to his life than being Prime Minister, unlike a certain person we all know.

“I was never going to get carried away screaming and kicking, clinging on with my fingernails. I wanted to be out, physically and mentally capable of the next chapter.”

The economy is also notably absent from the list of things that Blair says he feel proud of from his tenure at Number Ten. Indeed, he notably starts the list off with the public service reforms that Brown so obstructed.