Guardian: Just as the winter launched its wet weather assault on England in December, new maps from the Environment Agency identified No 10 Downing Street as one of the 5m properties now at risk of flooding. Two months later, after thousands of filthily submerged homes and at least in 1bn in damage, the murky waves of political danger now crash against the prime minister's door.
To understand how it came to this we have to go back to the sun-blessed, rose-garden days of the summer of 2010. As the austerity...