"Tony Blair has said he would have given David Cameron more of "a run for his money" than Gordon Brown at the 2010 election.

The former prime minister stood down in 2007, with successor Mr Brown taking Labour to its lowest share of the vote in almost 30 years.

Mr Blair told Bloomberg Markets magazine the contest "would have been tighter" with him in charge.

But he stopped short of saying Labour would have won."

Blair is kind of a douche to rub salt in the wound like this, and of course it's pointless speculation, but he's probably right.