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David Cameron was supposed to have spent yesterday morning delivering his much-delayed speech on the future of Britain’s relationship with Europe. Instead, he had to make his way to the House of Commons for an emergency statement on the Algerian hostage crisis. Having started the week by offering to provide France with two C-17 transport planes to assist with its intervention in Mali, Mr Cameron ended it anxiously trying to discover the fate of the British hostages taken captive after the attack by Islamist terrorists on BP’s In Amenas gas field.