According to Mark Townsend and Hannah Olivennes writing in the Observer, David Cameron is set to emerge this week as the victor in a long and “bitter cabinet battle” with Nick Clegg by unveiling a “hardline approach to tackling Islamist extremism”. Home Office sources say that Cameron has “quashed Nick Clegg’s argument for a more tolerant attitude to Muslim groups” by confirming the analysis he made in his Munich speech in February.
Cameron and Blair: the real counter-terrorism coalition
Cameron is completing the policy Blair had begun to implement.