I think, like most foreign policy debates, this had next to nothing to do with anything foreign: not Syria, not even the US and the ‘special relationship’. It was all about the next election – Tory backbenchers’ anxiety concerning being outflanked by an isolationist UKIP and desire to be rid of Cameron and to dump the Lib Dems, Miliband’s desire to find something that might shift the crucial swing voter his way.
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