Governments can recover from rage but not ridicule

I doubt that even the Major government at its lowest ebb had a worse day of Sunday headlines than this government has had today. On a substantive level, Brown’s plans for the G20 appear in tatters. The Germans have leaked the draft communiqué and the New York Times has detailed Brown’s tendency to say one thing to a European audience and another to an American audience. There is also another story about Lord Myners’s tax affairs in the papers; Myners is fast becoming the personification of Brown’s foolish worship of the so-called masters of the universe. To round things off, the latest poll puts the Tories 13 points ahead.

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Britain is living beyond its means

But I suspect it isn’t these broadsheet stories that will do most harm to the government. Instead it will be the revelations that Jacqui Smith’s husband’s pay per view porn films were charged to the taxpayer and that Nigel