Blair highlights Brown’s weaknesses

Tony Blair’s return to the GMTV sofa and Parliament yesterday showed up Gordon Brown’s communications deficiencies. Blair spoke in fluent human, defused tensions with the odd joke and was relaxed in his command of the detail. In short, it was a reminder of why Blair was such a formidable politician and helped explain why Brown is struggling so badly..

Ann Treneman sums it up nicely in The Times:

The tan, the wry asides, the puppet hand gestures, the fluent grasp of detail, the excuses about Cherie. It all seemed so familiar and looked so utterly effortless. Poor Gordon. How he must wish that the Ghost of Blair would haunt someone else.