The Archbishop of Canterbury is bracing himself for an angry confrontation with senior Church members as he refuses to apologise over the sharia law row.
Dr Rowan Williams has faced fresh calls for his resignation and claims from within the Anglican Church that confidence in him had "plummeted".
His attempt to douse the flames over the weekend by denying that he had ever called for sharia law to operate in parallel with civil law was only partially successful.
It failed to deflect a broadside from Lord Carey, his predecessor, who said the introduction of elements of sharia would be "disastrous for the nation", or to dispel anger in the wider Anglican Church, which is already threatened by a split over homosexuality,...