Blair’s toe-curling embrace... but Boris is as buoyant as ever!

PUCKERING up, Tony Blair staged something of a ‘love in’ yesterday as he greeted Jean-Claude Juncker with a kiss.

The Europhile former Prime minister greeted the European

Commission president like an old friend at a Brussels lunch.

However, the timing of the meeting seemed designed to upstage a distinctly frosty press conference between Brexit Secretary David Davis and his counterpart Michel Barnier – which was taking place in the same building.

Over in Nigeria, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson appeared to be puckering up too – but was merely being buffeted by wind as he helped pilot a rib with the Royal Navy. A unit based in Lagos is training the Nigerian navy to tackle the threat of pirates.