Blair Brown radiates magnetism and warm authority as Stravinsky's wife Vera, a former actress who is also Sudeikin's ex-wife and a leader within the group.
It seems likely, then, that the Blair-Brown decision was conditioned less by politics than economics.
In other words, the real-world political consequences of the Blair-Brown rivalry interest him less than the rivalry itself.
For 15 years Labour has been dominated and mesmerised by the Blair-Brown duopoly.
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It is fair to say that, as with some other casualties of the Blair-Brown era, the hatchet has not been buried.
Blair and Brown, characterised as reluctant Europeans too timid to make the case, may be more effective champions of Europe than they know.
We should never forget that Cameron and Osborne inherited from Blair, Brown and Balls a catastrophe, and they deserve sympathy in their struggle to rescue us from it.
Hardly a day goes by in the Commons without ex-ministers from the Blair and Brown years condemning Coalition ministers for announcing new policies in the media rather than to the House.
Ed Miliband is expected to seek to draw a line under the Blair-Brown era and tell Labour delegates that a new generation is in charge, in his first speech as Labour leader.
It might not be a feud to rival Heath vs Thatcher or Blair vs Brown but the row between Conservative MPs Nadine Dorries and Louise Mensch is in the tradition of great Westminster spats.
If you do not believe that Messrs Blair and Brown are the most psychologically fascinating pairing since Victoria and Albert, Bonnie and Clyde or Gabriel and Lucifer, you will not enjoy this book as you are intended to.
It introduced university tuition fees and a bigger role for private providers in publicly funded health care, a reform that may, in time, dramatically alter the shape of the NHS. But the Blair-Brown rift stalled the reform process, and it more or less ceased during Mr Brown's three-year premiership.
Post New Labour MPs are keen to avoid refighting Blair-Brown era factional battles, but it turns out that small groups of members from the new intake - about six or seven at a time - have been meeting Mr Tony for informal and very off-the-record chat-ettes about politics and strategy.
Despite the chancellor's relatively decent record running the economy, the endless Brown-Blair skirmishes have left deep doubts about what Prime Minister Brown would do.
Mr Brown (and the Treasury) regarded Mr Blair's enthusiasm for the currency as a dangerous frivolity, while Mr Blair chafed over Mr Brown's veto.
He said the Tories could use legislation "left behind" by Tony Blair to push academies further than Gordon Brown, Mr Blair's likely successor, "would ever dare to do".
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Mr Blair and Mr Brown arrived in Belfast at about 1530 BST on Thursday.
There are real tensions and disagreements over real issues between Mr Blair and Mr Brown.
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One is the clear divergence of opinion between Mr Blair and Gordon Brown, his chancellor.
And Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett urged Mr Blair and Gordon Brown to ensure a smooth transition of power.
Lord Mandelson backed Mr Blair over Mr Brown early on and incurred the latter's hurt and resentful enmity.
It was a source of the tension between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown well into the new millennium.
He held a variety of ministerial briefs under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown - including pensions, science and energy.
But Mr Blair and Mr Brown always had the cover of plausible deniability.
The central one is, of course, that between Mr Blair and Mr Brown.
Under Tony Blair, Mr Brown's predecessor, the government got a reputation for bungling, with notable mishaps at the Home Office.
But the only power struggle of significance has been the uneven contest between Mr Blair and Gordon Brown, his chancellor.
Former prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown might have "valid submissions" to offer he suggests ... but as for him?
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