Gordon Brown yesterday called for a new spirit of global ethics and market morality to guide this week's G20 summit, in a speech at St Paul's cathedral that combined lofty rhetoric with a low attack on his political rivals at home.
The British prime minister used a speech to faith leaders to suggest that David Cameron, the opposition Conservative leader, was prepared to stand aside while the recession took its toll, a policy which he said “demeaned our humanity”.
With Sir Christopher Wren's cathedral as a backdrop, Mr Brown insisted “markets need morals” and claimed he was something of a lone voice in arguing in the past that markets should be restrained.