Grounded for now
David Cameron needs to relearn leadership
THE vote on bombing Syria on August 30th was billed as crunch time for David Cameron. The prime minister had been arguing for intervention into Syria’s awful war for over a year. The gassing of innocents in Damascus had now given him a chance to make that happen. Yet there was clearly little enthusiasm for his—albeit limited—war plan in the House of Commons. And this was a vote, it was thought, that Mr Cameron simply could not lose.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Grounded for now”
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