On Wednesday David Cameron told PMQs that his message for military chiefs – concerned about mission stretch in Libya – “you do the fighting and I’ll do the talking.”
A thoughtful reader* has written to the FT to point out the similarity to the Tennyson poem, Charge of the Light Brigade.
“Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do or die”
* Rhoderick Powrie, Winchelsea Beach, E.Sussex
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