Rarely has David Cameron seemed more like the “heir to Blair” than at his Downing Street press conference this afternoon on the terrorist threat from ISIS. He emphasised in his opening statement that the “root cause” of the threat, which was raised today from “substantial” to “severe” (meaning an attack is considered “highly likely”), was not western foreign policy but the “poisonous ideology of Islamist extremism”. He said:
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