The former youngest MP was always popular with researchers. Maybe his wife the mother of his child wants him back home now he has just become a father…

On Doughty TV last night*, ex-Downing Street spinmeister Lance Price asserted to Iain Dale that it was Blair who claimed Brown was “psychologically flawed”. Asked by Tory MP Jeremy Wright at PMQs Tony denied it. Andrew Rawnsley has promised to reveal all after Blair steps down. So we will find out if Blair was lying (again) eventually…

At the Fabian conference on the weekend Brown condemned Cameron as a lightweight and made a virtue of his grumpy seriousness. The Mirror headlined it “He blasts rival Cameron for ‘fluffy’ showbiz politics” and the Indy more soberly said ‘I’ll have nothing to do with celebrity culture,’ says Brown.

So his India trip is obviously going to be all about one thing only – the travails of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, the Celebrity Big Brother contestant in Britain. All the Indian press want to know are his views on her treatment. The Beeb reports that “Gordon Brown has become involved in the row over alleged racist bullying on Celebrity Big Brother during a visit to India. Mr Brown said the issue had been raised repeatedly during his trip.”

“Celebrity culture” loathing Brown is scheduled to visit a Bollywood film studio on the trip.

According to the Sun the former chipolata swallower diary secretary is again working in the Deputy PM’s old office, “though officials insist she NEVER meets him or has contact with other ministers.”

So now she and Prezza are both paid to do nothing in the DPM’s office.

N.B. Prezza and Tracey’s homemade video is on GuyNews.TV.

Yesterday Tony told the hacks at his monthly press conference that:-

“I believe that provided we hold our nerve in the reform and change programme, provided we go to New New Labour if you like, and don’t retreat from New Labour, we will come through this with the renewed sense of leadership and energy and drive that we need”

He went on to confirm that he planned to stay for the EU summit in June. Guido still has money on the Aznar option on Betfair. Keeping Gordon waiting until the wheels fall off the economy would scupper Gordon’s electoral chances.

Alas for Gordon, even New New Labour won’t wash with the voters.

Just now on the Daily Politics – the best of the BBC’s political output – Andrew Neil would not let Gordon’s apprentice off the hook, repeatedly asking Ed Balls why, if it was down to oil, UK inflation was higher than the rest of the Western industrialised world?

Ed tried to wriggle and in the end started grovelling to Neil, that he was probably the best informed political journalist on the economy. Classic. “Please stop beating me up” his eyes were pleading.