But Conservative leader David Cameron said Mr Brown and his critics were locked in "a slow dance of political death".

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As the day fades away, the sun enters a slow dance with the mountains, reflecting an ever-changing kaleidoscope of hues in the water below before finally creeping behind the peaks.

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So expect a similar slow dance from miners Xstrata and Anglo American, after the former announced its interest in a merger over the weekend.

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But the dance was a slow one.

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It's been a year since they had their last slow dance.

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They had been looking for the point at which the magnetic field and the plasma switch from a slow, gentle waltz to something like an American square dance.

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On 25, he chose to dance down the wicket to the slow bowler and got into a tangle as the ball drifted under his bat and clipped the leg stump.

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