Support grows for British air strikes against Isis

If there is a strategy buried under the ‘no strategy’ response by the US and the UK to Isis, it seems to be that David Cameron and Barack Obama have preferred to make the case for greater military involvement by waiting for everyone else to get frustrated that nothing is happening.

Where a few weeks ago, there was plenty of muttering about the polls and the public being weary of intervention, we see today that voters are starting to push for greater UK involvement. They are not, of course, in favour of boots on the ground (one of those phrases that is as worn out now as a very old boot, along with ‘knee-jerk response’): the Sun’s poll finds 58 per cent of voters are against ground troops. But 39 per cent say we should arm the Kurds, and 47 per cent are in favour of air strikes (with 31 per cent opposed and 22 per cent saying they don’t know).