I don't care for the current government but they do have more veterans and far more internal defence expertise than the late Conservatives ever did. I have a strong suspicion that the much wiser cabinet members like the MND and LGen Leslie have been key in getting rid of  what would be a misguided, strategically bungled UN mission in Africa. 
Any public support for it would have promptly melted away with the first ramp ceremony in Trenton returning dead service members.