How Barroso and Brown could stitch up the press

If I were Barroso, I would pick a huge, fake fight with Gordon Brown before the EU constitution, sorry, treaty is signed. His plea today that Britain should not be “closed to Europe” is what the PM needs. The two have to pretend to be at loggerheads, let the press write up a split, then a “bulldog Brown triumphant” headline at the end. Brown’s problem is that he’s already claimed his so-called “red lines” have been met. So how can he claim they are suddenly under threat again? We’ll see.