Mr Blair has been persuaded by Lord Jenkins that the division of the centre-left between Labour and Liberals has been its besetting weakness in this century.

ECONOMIST: Terms of engagement

After the closure of the UNESCO International Safeguarding Campaign for Mohenjodaro in 1997, the UNESCO Division for Cultural Heritage and World Heritage Centre reinitiated their collaboration and developed a post campaign strategy in 2004, which identified further areas of interventions such as: management structure, conservation and stabilization, training and capacity building, site and tourism development.

UNESCO: Safeguarding Moenjodaro

Britain compounded the division, first by reinforcing the inequities of development between the centre and outlying regions, and then by hastily granting Sudan independence in 1956 without taking the interests of the southern Sudanese into account.

ECONOMIST: Sudan

At the centre of the railway industry's problems is the division of track from trains which sets up an adversarial relationship between Railtrack and the train operating companies.

ECONOMIST: A better way to run a railway

At the centre of the group's financial crisis is the performance of the car division, which accounts for some 40% of sales, and which made a whopping euro429m operating loss in the first quarter alone.

ECONOMIST: Junked? | The

De Gaulle's vision of Franco-German reconciliation, of the building of a new European order with France and Germany as its centre of gravity, ended - according to one British historian - a historic enmity created by the division of Charlemagne's empire in the ninth century.

BBC: Part Three - France and the World

The versatile Sale player can cover full-back, wing and outside centre, and if used as a replacement, could provide more of a cutting edge to a back division that has struggled to create chances.

BBC: England call-up for Erinle & Shaw