David Cameron is not having the best of weeks and the Foreign Affairs Committee’s highly critical report on his Libya intervention will not improve his mood.
When the Chilcot Report came out, Cameron made much of how the National Security Council structure that he had put in place had improved policy making. But the FAC report states that despite the National Security Council, there was still no coherent strategy for the intervention. Indeed, it calls for an inquiry into how the NSC actually makes policy.
The Libya intervention might have prevented a massacre in Benghazi. But the chaos in Libya since, the migrant crisis and the increase influence of Islamic State there mean that it cannot be judged a success. Indeed, there is a real danger that Islamic State’s presence in Libya means that it could end up in control of some of the smuggling routes into Europe.
But the problems here go far beyond David Cameron and British government structures.
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