If the government stands ready to recapitalise all big banks, many question whether the takeover of troubled mortgage lender HBOS by Lloyds TSB, brokered by Mr Brown in September, need go ahead.
Mr Cameron is also expecting rebels on the Conservative side but after a ring-round by Tory whips they expect the motion to pass with the "clear majority" which the Prime Minister claimed he needed before going ahead.
Now the project has received the money needed to go ahead, the real work begins, and the public scrutiny is already ramping up.
Earlier this week, on his blog, Summers conceded that the Fed, having repeatedly signalled its intention to raise the federal-funds rate, needed to go ahead with the hike to preserve its credibility in the markets.
Britvic announced a 51% increase in pre-tax profits for the first half, prompting analysts to question whether it needed to go ahead with the merger, if it is finally cleared.
The Cardiff Stop the Incinerator campaign group continued to lobby EAW to stop the agency giving Viridor the permit they needed to go ahead with plans for the facility in Trident Park.
Although the deal is small, it brings HSBC a Polish banking charter, which it needed to go ahead with plans to make consumer loans there through its Household International subsidiary.
South Africa ignored United States displeasure with its decision to import Cuban doctors to rural areas where medical help was needed and went ahead with a deal to store Iranian oil.
The former Labour chancellor, Alastair Darling, also told the programme the expansion at Heathrow needed to go ahead.
He was called to appear at the ICC "status conference" when the prosecution said evidence needed to go ahead with a trial was being withheld.
