Cameron gives up holiday as UK executioner raises stakes

Cameron appears to agree with John Humphrys that his holiday was 'unseemly' after beheading

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The revelation that a US journalist has apparently been executed in cold blood by a British member of the Islamic State raises the stakes for David Cameron's government - and has brought the PM scurrying back to London from his holiday in Cornwall.

Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond expressed his “horror” on Radio 4's Today programme at the beheading in the desert of freelance journalist James Foley, who had been kidnapped in Syria almost two years ago.

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