The report of
the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on the intervention in Libya contained
a damning indictment of the former Prime Minister, David Cameron according to
all the newspaper reports. In some ways, though, it’s a pity that the
investigation and report were limited to the issue of Libya.
At one point, the
report said that “…former prime minister
David Cameron was ultimately responsible for the failure to develop a coherent
Libya strategy”. It struck me that the
sentence would still ring true if the word ‘Libya’ was deleted. The debacle over Brexit, for instance, was a
result of the same tendency – a lack of a coherent strategy and a tendency to
fly by the seat of his pants, making it up as he went along. Overconfidence in one’s own ability to ‘wing
it’ is not a sound basis for good government.
In the case of Libya, it probably led to many needless deaths as well.
Labour to pledge to renationalise railways if elected
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Labour will pledge to renationalise the railways if elected, in what the
party will call the “biggest overhaul to our railways in a generation.” A
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