Labour’s anti-war leader Jeremy Corbyn is against any military action but Cameron appears increasingly confident that he can persuade enough Labour MPs to pass the vote, particularly after last week’s United Nations Security Council resolution authorising countries to “take all necessary measures” against IS.
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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.
At Prime Minister’s Questions he said there was a “clear and present danger” from the group, which is also known as Isis, Isil or Daesh. Mr Cameron asked parliament.
The British prime minister suggested that there could be a fresh vote on the issue in the wake of the recent terror attacks in Paris.
“The longer IS is allowed to grow in Syria, the greater the threat it will pose”.
Ms Abbott, the shadow worldwide development secretary, warned that those who supported air strikes – said to be the overwhelming majority of the shadow cabinet – could expect to come under pressure from local activists when they return to their constituencies at the weekend.
The Prime Minister told MPs “we should be acting now” to take the fight to the terror group in Syria.
“The end result of intervening where we should not is that there is understandably little public or professional support for doing so when we should”, said Mr Dodds.
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.
But he added: “We do face a fundamental threat to our security”.
Mr Robertson said: “The UK spent 13 times more bombing Libya than on its post-conflict stability and reconstruction”.
Unveiling the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) to MPs, Mr Cameron said IS was “not some remote problem thousands of miles away”.
“We have to deny a safe haven for ISIL in Syria”.
A week of frantic worldwide diplomacy was under way with French President Francois Hollande set to meet all five UNSC permanent members, and the USA trying to rally support for a ceasefire in Syria.
In a letter sent to all the party’s MPs, Mr Corbyn said that David Cameron had failed to set out a “coherent strategy” for defeating IS in his Commons statement. “We have shown our firm resolve and together we will defeat this evil threat”.
“Unless the Prime Minister answers these questions satisfactorily, the Scottish National Party will not vote for air strikes in Syria”, he said.
He also said that he would step up efforts to share intelligence with France and other European partners.
On Sunday evening, French police issued a photograph of one of the suicide bombers thought to have killed himself outside the Stade de France – one of the sites of the Paris attacks that killed 130.
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Syria’s civil war, now in its fifth year, has left more than 250,000 people dead and has displaced millions, sparking a refugee crisis in Europe.
