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  The spin off of a rushed error of judgement ?
  
  Syrian crisis: David Cameron forced to fight from the margins
  
  Prime minister's influence hit by defeat in Commons and he will not be holding bilateral meeting
  
  with Barack Obama in Russia
  
  David Cameron's main focus at the summit will be to lobby Vladimir Putin to support action against
  
  Bashar al-Assad. Photograph: Rex/Rex Features
  
  A sidelined and subdued David Cameron flies to St Petersburg on Thursday for the G20 summit
  
  warning that the world has let down Syria, strongly supporting Barack Obama's military plans to
  
  degrade Bashar al-Assad's military, but unable to offer any practical military support from Britain.
  
  Syria is not formally on the agenda of the G20 since the focus of the forum is the world economy,
  
  but the issue will dominate bilateral discussions. It is also likely that Sergey Lavrov, the Russian
  
  foreign minister, will try to convene an ad hoc meeting of foreign ministers at the summit on the crisis.
  
  Cameron's relative impotence is the price he is paying for his defeat in the Commons vote last week.
  
  The prime minister's push to the margins is being symbolised by the fact that he will not be holding
  
  a bilateral meeting with Obama in St Petersburg, unlike François Hollande, the French president,
  
  who has pledged military support and now sits at the centre of the alliance between Washington and Europe.
  
  Full story Guardian.

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