Joined at the hip or spreading poison?

As you can imagine the Sunday's have been falling over themselves to find some scandal on Peter Mandleson and the Sunday Times has won the race.
It reports on its front page that

dripped pure poison” about Gordon Brown into the ear of a senior Conservative just weeks before his extraordinary cabinet come-back, it was claimed last night.
Mandelson is alleged to have laid out a long and detailed critique of the prime minister’s failings in a private conversation with a leading member of David Cameron’s top team.
In addition, Mandelson, warned that Brown was vulnerable to the charge that he had presided over a “culture of debt”.

Hardly the united cabinet in the face of economic crisis if the comments are true.

The Mail on Sunday meanwhile reports that Ed Balls pleaded with Brown not to bring him back in cabinet but its big claim is that David Blunkett may also be returning.

The Observer trumps them all with an interview with the man in question,he is also appearing on Adam Boulton this morning, and Mandleson claims that he is joined at the hip to Brown.
According to the Interview

Mandelson insisted that he and Brown had 'never entirely lost our friendship' and said he had been at times 'a bit combative, probably a bit prickly', but suggested the past should be left behind.
Mandelson said he and the Prime Minister had 'learnt lessons' over their years of feuding. Warning that the government must get better at forging and selling new policies, he added: 'I think all the cabinet share this view. And I think they also know what's been missing, and what has to be put in place.'