It won't hurt me they are Blairites says Brown

Over at Independent Minds Andrew Grice is reporting that

Some "friends" of Gordon Brown are putting it about that he won't really be damaged much by the lobbying allegations against Stephen Byers, Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon because the three former Cabinet ministers are Blairites.

As Andrew so well puts it

The message it sends, apart one from appalling complacency, is that New Labour's two tribes are still at war.