Different From

Not content with saying "different to", David Cameron followed up the recent UN Security Council resolution on Libya by calling that body "the world's government". And the Commons debate today makes it abundantly clear that most MPs agree with him.

They merrily submit us to the human rights rulings of a judge from Turkey, and they merrily subject our foreign policy to the absolute veto of China. For that matter, they merrily submit us to the human rights ruling of any foreign judge, and they merrily subject our foreign policy to the absolute veto of any foreign power.

The urban myth seems to have grown up that all opposition to the utterly catastrophic war in Iraq was based on the undoubted absence of any "mandate" from the UN. But at least as many of us were never interested in that. We held, and have been proved entirely correct in having held, that such a war was against the British national interest. The number of No votes tonight will be the number of MPs with any concept of a British national interest.