Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/PA Wire
MPs winced at PMQs this week when Tony Blair accused Sir Menzies Campbell of sitting on the fence over Trident and concluded vividly: "That's not a very comfortable place to be!"
But it seemed to be where Mr Blair found himself when he visited a sports academy in London today. Accompanied by the sport secretary, Tessa Jowell - who today announced that the budget for the Olympics had increased to £9.4bn - Mr Blair insisted that "the core Olympic budget doesn't move a great deal".
It was whether Mr Blair was able to move a great deal that seemed to be worrying Ms Jowell and a couple of the young tennis players here.
The prime minister himself, however, seems remarkably unconcerned, standing with his hands in his pockets as he bestrides the net without a care in the world.
Still, he did make his political name by straddling both right and left.
Mr Blair encountered some more future Olympians - provided Britain decides to pull together a joint football team in 2012 - when he left the centre.
According to the Press Association, as he headed off, a group of young people shouted: "Yeah, yeah, Blair," "Official in the hood", and asked him: "Do you want to play a bit of football?"
"I'd love to, but I've got cabinet instead," the prime minister said regretfully. "You'll have more fun than me anyway."
Perhaps he'll be back in a couple of months to take up the offer.
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