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I’m not sure what favourable terms David Cameron has reached with the dry cleaners who work for Downing Street, but they must be pretty good. Because, soon after rolling out a pristine red carpet for the Chinese President Xi Jinping, he’s at it again. This time Egyptian army chief-turned-president Abdel Fattah El Sisi is the man treading the crimson plush.
Sisi isn’t getting the five-star lavishness of Xi’s gold carriages-and-state-banquet visit, but he’s still a welcome guest to London. We’re likely to hear No10 saying the visit will help strengthen a security partnership against ISIS and other threats in the region, what the Egyptian state-run news agency MENA has called a “widening circle of terrorism and extremism.”
