He told a press conference at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta: “I do hope that the House of Commons will be able to meet the request of Prime Minister Cameron”.
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Fiona McTaggart, MP for Slough, said Mr Corbyn’s leadership had been “weak”.
Shadow worldwide development secretary Diane Abbott insisted the shadow cabinet was not entitled to vote down the leader and said she was confident they would come to the “right decision”.
Mr Corbyn is going to try and form a collective view within his own shadow cabinet.
The Labour row comes after Mr Cameron spent almost three hours trying to convince MPs action against IS in Syria would make Britain “safer” and would be part of a “comprehensive” strategy alongside key allies to defeat the group. “You can not have a shadow cabinet voting down the leader of the Labour Party, who has just been elected with the biggest mandate in history”.
But later, Hilary Benn, Labour’s foreign affairs spokesman, said such differences were to be expected when considering military action, and although he backed extending air strikes, he respected Corbyn’s right to express his opinion.
David Cameron will set out the case for British jets and drones to strike at Islamic State (IS) in Syria in an escalation of the UK’s involvement in the war against the jihadist group.
But Mr Corbyn then surprised his colleagues by sending MPs a letter saying he had already decided that he could not support the proposal to send the RAF into action in Syria.
Cameron lost a vote on air strikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in 2013 and must persuade some wary members of his Conservative Party and in the opposition Labour Party to back him if he is to win parliament’s support for military action.
The chaos engulfing the party led to Ms Mactaggart suggesting that it was the Labour leader who should be resigning. Finance Minister George Osborne, a frontrunner to succeed Cameron, said he understood people’s concerns that further involvement in the Middle East could make Britain a target.
It appears some senior members of the Labour Party were offended by the letter, as they argue the letter should not have been sent before an agreement was reached among Labour’s “shadow cabinet” – those chosen by the party leader to hold their counterparts in the ruling party to account.
On Friday evening, the Labour leader wrote to party members saying he did not believe Cameron had made “a convincing case” for the bombing but asked members what the party should do.
The Black Country MP said: “We have a Shadow Cabinet, we have collective responsibility”.
“As the murders on the streets of Paris reminded us so starkly, Isil (IS) is not some remote threat”, he said, referring also to the killings of British tourists at a Tunisian beach resort in July by a lone gunman.
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“We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies”, Mr Cameron told a packed chamber of the House of Commons in London.
