David Cameron caused controversy last week when he teased BBC journalist Michael Crick that forthcoming cuts at the corporation were "delicious". Now the prime minister has been forced to repent at the dispatch box for his comments, made during a press conference on EU budget changes on Friday. Challenged by Labour MP Tom Watson yesterday during a debate about the defence treaty with France, the PM confessed: "I probably shouldn't have used the word 'delicious'." OK, OK, that is less grovelling apology than slight statement of regret, but it also qualifies as a public climbdown – and a delicious one at that.
