By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk
* Peter Mandelson reveals that Gordon Brown would have quit within a year if Labour won power.
* Gary Younge says that New Labour era memoirs are the history of “little men”.
* Over at the Telegraph, James Kirkup says that Mandelson is “embarrassing himself”.
* Meanwhile Tony Blair’s memoirs have undergone a title change, and now sound “less messianic”.
* And former OBR head Sir Alan Budd says that the organisation needs to move out of the treasury.


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