Stormy weather
The news from Washington arrived last night as we sat down to the Open Road dinner - Bank Birmingham deserves a plug by the way - great place. But the vote was not especially cheering.
Hence an uncharacteristically subdued performance from Cameron on Today this morning. This really is very difficult for him. Plainly, no political party has the faintest idea what to do and in any case they have to wait for the Americans. It must really gall Cameron to hear Brown pontificating on the need to solve the crisis when his economic policies have left us bereft of all domestic means to do so. But the response of sober all-party co-operation is the only way to go.