Blair won’t criticise Cameron if Cameron becomes PM

I expect that the Labour machine will be absolutely delighted with Gordon Brown’s interview in The Times magazine today. The interviewer concludes that Brown has more of a common touch than Blair or Cameron and that Brown’s press team are more relaxed than Cameron’s. The interview even goes into what Brown’s favourite love poetry is. But what struck me in the interview is something Blair says in the course of expressing his support for Brown:

“One of the reasons why I would never go out and criticise the person who is Prime Minister is that I know how damn tough the job is, and I also know enough about the way the modern media works to know that things can get extraordinarily exaggerated and your motives are completely traduced.”