Petty or revealing?

Just how significant was Brown’s “Saved the world gaffe” in  PMQs yesterday?  Was it – as one respondent to Politics Home’s latest PHI100 Index puts it – “a tiny motif … that tells a bigger story” about Brown’s hubris?  Or is the whole thing childish and overblown, as the Spectator’s own Clive Davis argues? 

These questions may seem trivial – and I guess, to some extent, they are – but the opposition parties will certainly want to know the answers.  With Campbell and Mandelson back on the scene, the war of words has become even more hard-fought, and Cameron and Clegg will be sorely tempted to remind the public of Brown’s slip-up at every availiable opportunity.  But that could backfire if voters regard it as nothing more than petty Westminster tittle-tattle. 

CoffeeHousers, your thoughts please.