CAMERON RAISES THE STAKES

So David Cameron has raised the gauntlet. An hour-long speech without notes and a call to arms for a General Election. It would be gripping stuff - if it wasn't just posturing on both sides.But Brown's bluff has now been well and truly called. And he has boxed himself in so much I really do not see how he can get out of it. As I sit at my computer, the West Yorkshire skies are truly glum, the leaves are rapidly disappearing and the prospect of traipsing round with leaflets truly does not appeal. Thoughts, I'm sure, echoed round the country......