Photo: Peter Byrne/PAEven when he's on his best behaviour, as he was at Labour's Manchester conference today, Tony Blair can never resist taking on his own party and giving them a piece of his mind, writes Michael White.
After their long rocky marriage the leader finally uttered to his party the words that mean so much: I love you.
He did it all very nicely and they took it in good part before they cheered him safely towards history's exit door. So they should, it was brilliantly-crafted text, beautifully delivered too, though Blair's own vision of New Labour Britain is an idealised one of well-educated children, new hospital wards and an ever-rising skills base.
But the backward glance was not the day's main purpose. His overriding message was twofold and impossible not to understand.
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