The article quoted an anonymous source who was reported to have called Corbyn “Jihadi Jez” after the Labour leader said it would have been better if ISIS executioner Mohammed Emwazi – known as Jihadi John – had been arrested rather than killed in a drone strike. He chose to say nothing to the millions of people in the United Kingdom and elsewhere who would have no doubt agreed with his critique of Britain’s predatory wars and instead went into discussions with the very forces who have waged these wars and who are seeking to use the Paris atrocities to urge an escalation of military action in Syria.
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Benn said: “That shocking tweet, it was wholly wrong to say that”.
Before the NEC meeting, splits in Labour’s frontbench deepened when shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn distanced himself from Mr Corbyn’s position.
Mr Corbyn made clear to Labour MPs that they should not expect a free vote if Mr Cameron returns to the Commons seeking support for British military intervention in Syria.
Later during Commons exchanges, a number of Labour MP’s supported the UK Government’s position on shoot-to-kill and Syria. Things are about to get very ugly in the Labour Party.
“Thirdly, it’s got to be done in a way that involves the global community because it can only be done by the worldwide community as a whole”.
He added: “The foreign policy overall that has been adopted has not worked”.
A spokesman for Mr Corbyn denied he had been “shouted down” at the meeting, saying MPs backed his stance on Syria.
“I think you have to have security that prevents people firing off weapons where they can, there are various degrees of doing things as we know”. I think what is now required is a detailed plan to be brought forward. I think in the end, this crosses party politics and I think it crosses politics within parties.
“I can only apologise to Sky viewers for the confusion over the last 24 hours but I’m glad that our leader Jeremy Corbyn has retracted, or at least clarified, his remarks of yesterday and said that he would support it too”.
She told Murnaghan: “It is hard to comment because it is not only a Government decision but they have chose to consult with the Parliament”. What’s the mission? The mission is to defeat Isis, we’re not going to defeat the ideology immediately, that’s going to take a much longer time but it’s much easier to make sure that we can’t have attacks projected on us such as the ones we’ve had in Paris if Isis does not control territory and there is nowhere for people to go, of whatever type, to go and fight for them.
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“How that is to be done is the debate that now has to be had and we want to participate strongly in that debate”.
