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David Cameron: only military can solve humanitarian crisis

DAVID CAMERON claimed yesterday that Britain must use “hard military force” to solve the escalating humanitarian crisis in the Middle East.

The Tory Prime Minister’s chest-beating suggests that a second vote seeking Parliament’s permission to bomb Syria is imminent — he lost the first in 2013.

His comments at Prime Minister’s questions (PMQs) come just two days after he revealed that he had authorised a drone strike in Syria that killed two British jihadists.

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