The killing of the Islamic State militant Mohammed Emwazi in a US drone strike is overwhelmingly supported by the public, a poll has found.
Seventy-six per cent said that they supported the decision to target him in a bombing raid last week. Only 11 per cent believed that the killing was wrong, according to the YouGov poll for The Times.
Among those who voted Labour at the last election, 64 per cent said that it was right to kill Emwazi, the British militant who became known as Jihadi John, They are at odds with Jeremy Corbyn, the party leader, who concluded that “it would have been far better for us all if he had been held to account in a court of law”.
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