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6 June 2011

Cameron and Blair: the real counter-terrorism coalition

Cameron is completing the policy Blair had begun to implement.

By Robert Lambert

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.

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