Brown: Blair and I had a deal – 8 in the morning, February 12th

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

* The PM admits that he struck a deal with Tony Blair over the Labour Party leadership.

* WATCH: Gordon Brown talking to Piers Morgan about the death of his baby daughter Jennifer.

* The Director General of the MI5 writes in the Telegraph: “it is rare that the intelligence services comment in public, but some of the recent reporting on the supposed activities and culture of MI5 has been so far from the truth that it couldn’t be left unchallenged”.

* BIll Clinton is in “good spirits”, having been rushed to hospital for heart surgery last night.

* David Cameron will be conspicuously absent from the Tories’ next set of election posters, to be launched next week.

* Life in Number 10: Read the transcript of Sarah Brown’s MumsNet chat last night.

* The Independent is serialising Lance Price’s revealing new book about life in Blair’s Number 10.

* The Economist’s Bagehot on the “fundamental problem with the Tory prospectus”.