Cameron questioned by MPs about Syria, climate change and flooding - Politics live
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6.37pm GMT
Here are the main points from David Cameron's evidence to the liaison committee. At times it got rather tetchy, and Andrew Tyrie certainly delivered on his promise to deliver "robust questions". (See 3.35pm.)
I'm very happy to do that, I think if people make offers and the churches have made offers, we should try and take them on.
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You have to be incredibly careful with highly sensitive information, information that if revealed could result in somebody's death. The source that gave you that information would be, could be, at risk.
You are asking me should the government have no hold back on the intelligence it gives to the ISC? Instinctively I would be very worried about that because there might be a piece of intelligence so sensitive that its release in anyway could endanger the source of that intelligence. In that case, the government should keep that intelligence as tightly held as possible.
The failure to engage in nation building has created a breeding ground for Isil ([Isis].
We were involved in nation building. We were there to help the Libyan people. We tried to do it in a way that was more remote than what had happened in Iraq. On this occasion, clearly it didn't work.
They are not all the sort of people you would bump into at a Liberal Democrat party conference.
I totally disagree with anyone who says that on the one hand Britain has helped to pioneer this climate change agreement and on the other hand is somehow backsliding on its green commitments. It's total and utter nonsense ...
Whether you look at solar or offshore wind - where we have the biggest offshore wind market anywhere in the world - whether you look at the Green Investment Bank, which is the first in the world, whether you look at the fact that we are reinvesting in our nuclear programme, whether you look at the fact that we are the first developed country to say that we are going to phase out coal-fired power stations, on any reasonable assessment, you would say that Britain is more than fulfilling its green commitments.
5.56pm GMT
Andrew Tyrie goes next.
Q: A civil servant called Iain Mansfied wrote a prize-winning report on what Brexit might look like. But he is not allowed to give evidence to select committees about this. Will you let him do so, in a personal capacity?
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