Tony’s last act or Gordon’s first triumph

Tony Blair will not take a bow for this one, and you can bet Gordon Brown won’t give him credit. But it looks like his plan for a peacekeeping operation in Darfur is finally going ahead – pretty much as the draft whose details were released on the day he stood down envisaged.

It was a Blair initiative, but is already being spun as a “Brown coup”. An impression which, I feel sure, the Prime Minister will not rush to correct. But as someone said, there’s no end to what you can achieve if you don’t care who takes the credit.