Fraser Nelson Fraser Nelson

Cameron talks tough with the Saudis

Just in case anyone was wondering, the Tories would like to hint (ever so gently) that Cameron socked it to those hand amputators in his meeting with them today. Or, in diplomatic language of a spokesman,

“Most of the 45 minute meeting was spent discussing co-operation between Britain and Saudi Arabia on counter-terrorism matters, including radicalisation inside and outside UK mosques, and the importance of stopping this radicalisation and the sources of funding for it.”

Get your Wahhabi cash out of our mosques, in other words? Let’s see how the papers play it tomorrow (if at all).

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