David Cameron's delicious climbdown

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.