Prime Minister's slip of the tongue causes uproar in Parliament

President George W. Bush is lucky. When Bush makes a slip of the tongue, he usually doesn't have 435 raucous members of Congress standing beside him.

Not so for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who was speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, when he slipped up and said his government had saved "the world" when he meant to say they had saved the financial industry.

That prompted an immediate uproar from the rowdy conservatives on the other side of the aisle, who accused the PM of being more interested in saving the world than in saving the businesses in the UK.

Like the U.S., Britain is digging out of a financial crisis, and Brown's government recently spent £37 billion to recapitalize ailing banks.

Here's how the London Telegraph described it: "In a fiery exchange at Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, Mr Brown accused the Tories of being 'on the wrong side of history', arguing that Mr Cameron's promise yesterday to restrain public spending meant he was committed to policies which failed the unemployed and small businesses in the 1980s."

The story continues later:

The Tory benches then collapsed into gales of derisive laughter as Mr Brown responded: "We not only saved the world... "

The PM tried to correct his wording to "saved the banks", but could not make himself heard above the uproar in the Commons.

And Mr Cameron made capital of his mistake, joking: "Well, it's now on the record. He is so busy talking about saving the world, he has forgotten about the businesses of this country."