Tony is phoney to the end

The Daily Torygraph's Little and Large blog suggests that the audience for Tony Blair's speech in Trimdon Labour Club yesterday was not all that it seemed:

“She’s from Mitcham and Morden,” yelled one Minister at one face on the television coverage today, or so I’m told.

Another MP – admittedly an arch-Brownite – swears blind that a well-known Labour councillor from Newcastle-upon-Tyne was among the audience.

“They must have brought them in from all over,” added this ardent supporter of the Chancellor.

Later. Iain Dale has more on this.