Via the Daily Telegraph:

Tony Blair intends to use his remaining weeks in office to surrender British powers to Brussels as part of his drive for a European “legacy”, senior Whitehall officials claim. Leading civil servants fear the Prime Minister will effectively bind the hands of Gordon Brown by signing Britain up to a rewritten version of the European Union constitution days before he finally resigns at the end of June.

I’d be a touch sceptical about this, but if true it ought to (it won’t, of course) bury the notion that, taking a longer term view, Blair has proved himself, in any meaningful way, a friend of the US.