The eyes have it
I'm outside the Labour National Executive Committee meeting - the one where Tony Blair had to come face to face with the people he never told about the secret loads that paid for his election campaign.
A tight-lipped prime minister left the meeting a few moments ago passing, as he exited the Attlee Room, an interesting array of portraits.
There was Dr David Owen, who helped split the Labour Party, Michael Foot who led it to its worst ever defeat, a wistful-looking Neil Kinnock who failed to beat the man in the next portrait, John Major, who was thrown out of office by none other than Mr Blair.
He stopped to look at none, until he reached the final picture - a pensive-looking portrait of one T Blair MP, lips pursed, eyes glaring anxiously to one side. The prime minister is growing by the day to look more and more like this portrait. And to add salt into his wounds - right on top of his picture is one prominent Labour critic, Diane Abbott.