In an effort to restore order, Mr Blair rebuked TomWatson, a junior defence minister who was the most senior of the signatories, and summoned Mr Brown to Downing Street for a meeting at 9am on September 6th.
On Tuesday, the prime minister, Defence Secretary Des Browne, Veterans Minister TomWatson and Mr Brown will meet veterans from almost 40 groups and from "as broad a range of experience, service and age as possible", Tony Blair has said.
The new material on this today was an account by TomWatson, the Labour Party's deputy chairman, of a recent conversation with Mr Neville Thurlbeck, former chief reporter of the News of the World, in which Mr Thurlbeck said that he had been assured by Tom Crone that Mr Murdoch had seen the "For Neville" email.