Brown survives PMQs | 14 May 2008

Last week, I said that Cameron should embark on a “save the Brown” exercise and be dull in PMQs, so as to cast the Prime Minister a lifeline. Perhaps he agrees. He was quite flat today, and Brown quite defiant. As always, I measure them against their usual standards – but this was not the scene of a Brown meltdown…

Brown started on Burma, which – if you ask me – he should have stuck to non-stop in the last few days. “I have asked Ban Ki Moon to hold an emergency summit such as Kofi Annan held. I have asked him – and I believe he is considering this – to go there himself.” So if he does go, or if there is a summit, it can be hailed a huge diplomatic triumph for Broon! Oh dear. Britain’s evaporating footprint on the world stage under this internationally invisible Prime Minister is one of the less-scrutinised aspects of the Brown tragedy.