If you spot the Prime Minister squirming and wriggling on the Syrian refugee issue, there’s a very simple explanation.
The Prime Minister is in a very tight spot, caught between a rock and a hard place. And it is clear that he hasn’t yet decided the best way to extricate himself.
After winning an outright Tory victory at the general election in May and the likely prospect of another win in 2020, he only has one major hurdle left during his term in office: winning the EU referendum. Whether he calls, as many expect, a vote as early as this spring, or waits until the end of his own self-imposed deadline of December 2017, Cameron will be campaigning to stay in. But as every day of the Syrian crisis passes, his chances of victory are getting slimmer.
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