Royall: Britain on the sidelines

Baroness Royall, leader of the opposition in the House of Lords, responds to David Cameron’s report from the G20 summit:

“This was the fifth G20 summit since the global financial crisis hit in 2008. During that time the UK provided leadership for co-ordinated global action… the Prime Minister failed to offer that leadership in the run-up to Seoul, and at Seoul itself, at such a crucial time for jobs in this country and for the global economy.

“No one expected the summit to be straightforward and it was not.

“It saddens me, however, to think that rather than showing strong global leadership-strong leadership in the search for global solutions to global problems-we in Britain looked as though we were on the sidelines.”