Kevin Coy

Fox News' website, foxnews.com published a story on it's website, reporting on the news that Gordon Brown had resigned as Prime Minister, and David Cameron of the Conservatives appointed in his place following last week's general election.  Unfortunately for foxnews.com, they seem to have got things just a little bit wrong, writing instead;

"Queen Elizabeth accepted the invitation of Conservative Party leader David Cameron to become Britain's new prime minister Tuesday night after Gordon Brown resigned following his failure to form a coalition government with another liberal party after national elections last week".

There is no getting away from the fact, the Prime Minister said three times at the Iraq Enquiry that defence spending had increased in real terms every year under Labour.  Well, as we all know from Prime Ministers Questions on Wednesday, that wasn't ever the case.  Infact, for two years, including 2004-05, at the height of the Iraq war and the war in Afghanistan, defence spending was cut in real terms.

The humiliating climbdown by Brown at Prime Minister's Questions and also his letter to Sir John Chilcott do not acknowledge the fact that he was simply wrong.  Instead, the prime minister is attempting to pass off the simple fact of incorrect information, as a 'clarification'.