If Tony Blair thought that Gaddafi wanted to cut a deal, why did no one follow up?

Just a few months ago, almost everyone thought that David Cameron was a goner. That he was about to go down in history as a one-term Prime Minister who failed to win against a bad Labour leader in 2010 then lost to a worse one in 2015. During this period, Anthony Seldon spoke to a long line of well-placed people for his biography of David Cameron; people who would have imagined they could talk freely because his book would be an autopsy. As a result, the former Master of Wellington College seems to have drawn plenty information from people who perhaps regret their candour now.

David Richards, the former head of the military, is candid about how he believed that the Libyan project was a disaster – embarked upon primarily to assuage the Prime Minister’s friends in Notting Hill. (Remember, Richards’ daughter used to work in Cameron’s private office, so he’ll have his own means of corroborating that thesis).