Guardian: David Cameron made a carefully controlled lightning visit to the flooded Somerset Levels on Friday and blamed the last Labour government for a pause in local river dredging in the late 1990s that he said had made the area more liable to flood.
The prime minister's afternoon tour contrasted with a chaotic and rowdy visit by the beleaguered Environment Agency chairman Chris Smith, a former Labour minister, who earlier in the day rejected repeated calls for him to resign.
Six weeks after the flooding...