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Prime Minister David Cameron: “We are still an independent country. We can have an independent foreign policy. If, for instance, we felt action needed to be taken to help bring about change in Syria, to help end this appalling bloodshed and we felt our European partners were holding that back then we’d have to change the approach. But that is not what I hope will happen. William Hague did a very good job persuading his colleagues to amend the terms of the arms embargo so we can provide this equipment.”