One might have thought that the PM would have performed well on Wednesday. He had a simple and for him appropriate task: sustained intellectual dishonesty. He had to deny two self-evident truths. First, that the British troops who fell in combat died in vain, Second, that the UK’s foreign and security policy is now in a mess.
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