Sky's political editor Adam Boulton can add "self-obsessed" to the list of his qualities - vain, feral, pathetic - outlined by former deputy PM John Prescott. Tony Blair's former spin-meister Alastair Campbell calls Adam's response to an attack on him by Prescott "a sad spectacle" and says he should have better things to do with his time. Read Prescott's blog here, Adam's ...

With the first of the election debates on Thursday, John Prescott has come out with a few choice words for Adam Boulton, the political editor of Sky News, who will preside over one of the contests between the three leaders.

Adam Boulton is exceptionally well sourced in the Blair circle so the extract from his updated history of the Blair years makes for fascinating reading. It shows how Blair is carving out a post-premiership in a way that no other ex-British Prime Minister ever has. What is making news, though, is what Boulton reveals about relations between the Blairites and Brownites. In a way, it is no surprise t...

You may remember a few months back we blogged that our very own Adam Boulton had written a book entitled 'Tony's Ten Years'. Well now you can read extracts from Adam's book right here on the Sky News website in a four-part series running every day this week. Today's extract delves into the simmering rivalry between then Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Chancello...

John Prescott today expressed regret for saying that he didn't like Cherie Blair. The former deputy prime minister made his comments while making a BBC documentary about the class system, to be broadcast tonight The programme includes footage of Prescott speaking to three young women about class, one of whom asks Prescott if he liked his former boss, Tony Blair. Prescott confirms he liked the...

Stung by the criticism of his journalism, Adam Boulton today hit back at John Prescott. The Sky journalist was responding to an attack by John Prescott on his blog.

What is absolutely fascinating about this blog exchange between John Prescott and Adam Boulton is the fact that it’s happened in public. Where in the past would a politician have been able to hold a reporter to account in this way? To try it in a TV studio was almost pointless as the TV class

Adam Boulton: Tony Blair's earnings from British politics plummeted when he left parliament

One of the unalloyed pleasures of Tony Blair's departure from politics was that out with him went John Prescott. John Prescott is back - along with his trademark gauche behaviour  No longer in British public life would we have to suffer the embarrassment of a deputy prime minister, no less,  who brawled in the gutter, claimed droite de seigneur with a diary secretary and procee...

Via Liberal Conspiracy, I come across the thoughts of the Independent's John Rentoul, one of the very few Blair-fanciers left on the face of the planet: Just to prove my utter devotion to the finest peace-time prime minister, I confess my reaction when I read that the Tony Blair Faith Foundation Facebook page had been defaced with, among others, this comment: "Tony Blair was about as good for...