WHAT'S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS

“No party can succeed in today’s world unless it’s also about wealth creation.”

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“Having a valet unpack your suitcase is very odd,” he says, shaking his head as if he didn’t enjoy the cosseting. “Old Labour used to talk about the working class and upper class, but staying with the royal family made me realise I’m definitely middle class.”

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“One of my views in politics is don’t make enemies deliberately because you end up making so many accidentally,” he muses.

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He is clear that Brown didn’t have the psychological equipment, or the smile, for the job. “He was never going to be user-friendly in the way that modern politics demands, but he could have won the election as a big, serious person.” Blair’s great fear is that the new Labour project died with his leadership.

Tony Blair: Exile from main street

Three years after he quit No 10, has the dust settled for Tony Blair? He talks candidly with Lesley White about Brown, Bush, Iraq and the world he has left behind

A brilliant interview, in today Sunday Times Magazine, worth to subscribe to all the pay walls of the world.

(Pictures by Harry Borden)

Before the debate:

Massive press bullying against Nick Clegg.

Gordon Brown: groggy.

David Cameron: lost in the campaign’s fog.

After the debate:

Winner: Cameron.

Big loser: Clegg.

Sky: better than itv, but both below average.

The moderator: A fatty Adam Boulton with too much food or drinking before the debate. ITV’s Alistair Stewart was quite better.

The best: lies in the Labour leaflets.

The worst: the bashing of Catholics.

What’s clear: Clegg lost momentum

In summary: Labour is out, bur Conservatives still are not in.

the third debate will be crucial not for Brown or Clegg, but for Cameron.

In a post-debate poll, for The Sun, 36% of viewers said Mr Cameron won, with 32% for Mr Clegg and 29% for Mr Brown.

Mr Brown was up 10% on last week’s YouGov instant poll, Mr Cameron up 7% and Mr Clegg down 19%.

UPADTE:

After reading this morning newspapers it’s clear to me that Brown has to resign, Clegg replace him, become the Labour candidate and he will win the elections.

This will be Lord Mandelson’s nigthmare!

The Sunday Times reports today about some “smart” Labour cabinet ministers using his government contacts to change policies in favour of businesses.

WOW!

Raising hell just two months before the next UK’s general election campaign.

Watch in the video how Stephen Byers, former trade and transport secretary, secretly recorded by an undercover repoter of the paper, offers himself “like a sort of cab for hire” for up £5,000 a day.

Amazing!

And, the por soul, also suggested bringing Tony Blair to meet clients…

The Sunday Times undercover reporter posed as a company executive looking to hire MPs for lobbying work.

The interviews were part of a joint investigation by Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper and Channel 4’s Dispatches programme in which 13 Labour MPs and seven Conservatives were approached.

Well, another example of the classic “Publish and be Damned!”

It works.

It sells newspapers.

And makes (corrupted) politicians go crazy.

Journalism 101.

Tis is why the Sunday Times is a best-selling newspaper.