This is indeed the key personal relationship of the Blair administration.
Perhaps the Blair administration should take a few lessons from, say, Lord Archer, a much-mocked but unabashed Tory peer, on how to roll with the punches.
Mr Prescott's working life took him from a job as a steward on cruise ships to the top table of government - serving as deputy prime minister throughout the Blair administration.
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This bipartisan British report mentions neither the Blair government nor the Clinton administration, yet is implicitly critical of both.
For all the British misgivings about the Bush administration, Mr Blair shows few signs of abandoning his chosen position midway between America and Europe, though both sides have called on him less since the war ended.
Mr Blair, along with the American administration and other friendly governments, is urging a more generous figure.
Rhodri Morgan probably made a mistake by ordering Alastair Campbell to appear before his Public Administration Committee to explain the Blair-Murdoch relationship and other murky topics.
Peter Hain made an official visit to India earlier this month, during which he delivered a message from Prime Minister Tony Blair to the new BJP-led administration.
Blair said he believed that the Bush administration was "sensitive" to foreign worries about the proposals and would discuss the issue with other states in a "serious and sensible" way.
Mr Carter said that if Mr Blair had distanced himself from the Bush administration's policy during the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq it might have made a crucial difference to American political and public opinion.
The Bush Administration should gently prod Prime Minister Tony Blair to begin the necessary process of deflating and derailing this misbegotten French initiative.
For Mr Blair, much will depend on what lessons the Bush administration draws from the events of the past few months.
Elsewhere, there's more civil service reform, this time at the Public Administration Committee (at 9.30am) where the star witness is Tony Blair's former Downing Street majordomo Jonathan Powell.
Mr Blair said that the government had a "long way to go" and there were lots of things his administration could do better.
Prime Minister Blair has indicated that his country will work with partners in Europe to help strengthen the governing institutions of the Palestinian administration.
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