i personally think it is unedifying to have to reflect on the role of people who don't have this platform to respond, but my take, as someone who has worked in downing street, is that the prime minister doesn't really own his own diary, and it really is for his team to have his back, and i think, as he reflected in the comments the other week, in hindsight, he should have shut down that event straightaway. he apologised profusely for having not done so, but the fact that the event ever happened reflects, ifear, rather poorly on those who scheduled it and put it into the prime minister's diary. so the armed forces ministerjames heappey appearing to blame those who put it in the prime minister's diary. i'm not sure from speaking to mps this morning that defence is going to go down well with some of those who actively want the prime minister take responsibility for what has happened, and wanting to show a bit more responsibility in