Gambling On a Dream: But Do the G20 Figures Add Up? Westminster Editor James Cusick Crunches the Numbers After a 'Triumphant' Summit

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IT was unscripted, offthe-cuff. But in one key sentence Barack Obama blew away away the foundation of Gordon Brown's carefully prepared victory speech which claimed the "world had come together" at the G20 summit and had delivered a new global order. The new US president wasn't so sure. "We won't know how effective we've been till we look back a year from now and then we'll find out if we got it right or not."

Brown took to the stage at the ExCel late on Thursday afternoon before the photocopiers had time to run off the final version of the communique.

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Gambling On a Dream: But Do the G20 Figures Add Up? Westminster Editor James Cusick Crunches the Numbers After a 'Triumphant' Summit

France and China were said to have had last-minute issues about just how firm the commitment should be about reforming tax havens.

But having gambled most of his political capital over the last few months on his ability to deliver something credible, something sellable to the British electorate, Brown couldn't wait to g...

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