1 Guido:

Guido reveals that Cameron has stolen his analysis from Francis Fukuyama's After the Neo-Cons but concludes

Interestingly although the arguments, phrasing and structure are the same, the conclusion is different. Fukuyama concluded the occupation of Iraq to be a mistake, Cameron has not followed the logic of the argument to that end. Not so much a dodgy dossier, more a dodgy conclusion...

2 Sky:

Well I didn't actually hear this but I was in a bar and saw a television with subtitles for the hard of hearing: "a speech his opponents will attack as another flipflop," it said. (They got that right).

3. Ming (in the Sun)

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell believes these words echo his own parties ideas, and have come a little late.

He commented: "It is a great pity that Mr Cameron and his party were not prepared to join the Liberal Democrats in making similar comments during the invasion of Iraq or the crisis in Lebanon.

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

"It is only the Liberal Democrats who have had the courage to take a consistent and principled approach to foreign policy."

4. One final thought

It is probably significant that newspapers are running the story under headings on the lines of "I'm not really a neo-con".