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David Cameron is playing a self-inflicted bad hand well
Cameron’s speech portrayed EU membership as essential (he described it as a guarantor of Britain’s security) yet refused to rule out ditching it and pointed to a modest and patchy list of asks (none of them concerning security, as Charles Grant of the CER notes) that purportedly make the difference.