President Vladimir Putin heads to the G8 summit for the first time in six years at a time of prickly relations between Russia and its western partners, most of all the United States.

The reform introduces stiffer sentences - up to eight years in prison - for whistleblowers and receivers.

Mr Cameron's answer will doubtless be that the work of the Coalition requires two parliaments to complete, and that anything is better than allowing Labour to return. But he does not have a mandate from his party, and cannot simply rely on his MPs accepting the inevitability of a pact.

"So the belief was if you had a child with a learning disability, there was something in your family that was suspect and wrong," said Jan Walmsley, a professor in the history of learning disabilities at the Open University, to the .

And in a message to supporters today, following a string of defeats for pro-abortion candidates: