Mr Walker said: “If it will help the situation in Syria and the benefits can be laid out very clearly I will support it, but if there isn’t evidence of that I don’t think it is worth risking our troops”.
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Mr Cameron has urged MPs to back military action, telling them it would be in the UK’s “national interest” to attack and not “outsource our security to allies” like the United States and France.
“One of the lessons I would say we should learn from the last century is that when your country is under threat, and when you face aggression against your country, you can not endlessly sit around and dream about a flawless world – you need to act in the world we are in”.
Britain has always been carrying out airstrikes against the terror group in Iraq, but not in Syria.
Mr Cameron said he had offered the French air force the use of RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus to mount strikes on IS as well as RAF air-to-air refuelling support. “It is up to the United Kingdom how it can commit and operate”, he said.
“As the murders on the streets of Paris reminded us so starkly, ISIL (another term for IS) is not some remote problem thousands of miles away – it is a direct threat to our security at home and overseas”, Cameron said.
It’s up to parliament to take a decision on whether to send British warplanes to Syria, noted Cameron, who previously failed to convince parliament to vote in favor of air strikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2013.
Speaking before meetings with US, Russian and German leaders in the coming days, Hollande said Britain and France had a “joint obligation” to strike at the jihadist group.
Cameron and Hollande also visited the Bataclan Theater to honor the 89 people who were killed there during the Paris attacks a little more than a week ago.
“We’ll make the case as a government, we will allow MPs to digest that response and then we will see where we stand”.
David Cameron will present his blueprint for Britain’s part in the war against Islamic State on Thursday – but no vote had been expected until Number 10 felt certain it would not suffer a second Commons defeat on the issue.
Her intervention came as the rift between Mr Corbyn and the majority of his shadow cabinet spilled out into the open after the Labour leader said the Prime Minister had failed to make a “convincing case” for further military intervention against IS.
The UN Security Council’s recent resolution authorizing countries to “take all necessary measures” against IS may also sway undecided politicians.
No arms or explosives were found in 19 raids across Brussels – including the Molenbeek area from where the Paris attack was planned – or two in Charleroi, they said.
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Brussels will stay on its highest level of alert at least until Monday, with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel warning that the threat “remains serious and imminent”, though schools and the Metro will reopen today.
