Rolling coverage of all the day’s developments as they happen, including David Cameron’s Today interview and his statement to MPs about Tunisia and the EU summit 8.30am BST Q: If Greece leaves, then the EU will worry more about Britain leaving.Cameron says Britain brings a lot to the EU. He hopes these matters can be fixed. 8.27am BST Q: Is it true that you think it would be better in the long run for Greece to leave the euro?Cameron says Britain’s interests would be best served by having an agreement between Greece and the eurozone that delivers a long-term solution. 8.24am BST Q: Young people from the UK are going to join Isil. In your Telegraph piece you write about reaching out to young people. But they are not listening go people like you.Cameron says there are practical things that can be done, like arrests. 8.19am BST Q: Isil has a third of Iraq and half of Syria. They are growing in strength.Cameron says Isil have lost a lot of territory in Iraq. So it is not true to say that their gains are not reversible. 8.18am BST Q: Since September we have launched 300 strikes against Isil. The US have launched 6,000. That’s a pin prick. But it makes us a target.Cameron says we will be a target anyway. 8.14am BST John Humphrys is interviewing David Cameron.Humphrys starts by saying Theresa May, the home secretary, is going to Tunisia today. 8.02am BST In an article in the Daily Telegraph today David Cameron says the government will counter terrrorism, and the threat posed by Islamic State (or Isis, or Isil) with a “full-spectrum response”. Here’s an extract.Perhaps the most important thing, is confronting the poisonous ideology that is driving terrible actions like those we saw on Friday. That ideology stems from an extremist narrative, which hijacks the religion of Islam. It says that the West is bad and freedom is wrong. Continue reading...
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