The Government’s position – repeated by Theresa May today – is that no proposals to extend the RAF’s mission against IS into Syria will be put to the vote in the House of Commons unless there was a “consensus” behind them.
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Jeremy Corbyn’s visit comes during a week when simmering tensions within Labour over his leadership have once again boiled over into public. The continuation of “internal warfare”, he warned, would lead to “unmitigated disaster”.
Mr Corbyn, a vice-president of CND, has admitted that large numbers of Labour MPs favour the like-for-like replacement of Trident.
The shadow cabinet he was consulting with over the weekend contains numerous advocates of military intervention in Syria, which are the forces Cameron is working with to win enough Labour MPs to get a vote to do so. Speaking at the gathering, shadow Europe minister Pat McFadden said “no one forces [terrorists] to kill innocent people in Paris or Beirut, and unless we are clear about that we will fail even to be able to understand the threat we face, let alone confront it and ultimately overcome it”. If you’ve got questions, spotted an inaccuracy or just want to share a few ideas about our news service, please email us on [email protected]@stv.tv.
The political talks and settlement will be very hard to achieve, Labour’s leader said.
And he said he was sorry if Labour’s position on the issue had been confusing.
Mr David noted the article had been removed but said: “Nevertheless, I think people will advise him to have no further participation in such an organisation”.
The leader’s bad week was compounded at Prime Ministers Questions, when David Cameron used the opportunity to pounce on remarks he’d made on Monday criticising the police’s “shoot-to-kill” policy against terrorists.
“I think you have to have security that prevents people firing off weapons where you can, there are various degrees for doing things as we know”. I think what is now required is a detailed plan to be brought forward.
He said the terror stronghold of Raqqa was the “snake’s head” that needed to be cut off.
Corbyn’s shadow justice secretary, the Blairite Lord Falconer, told the BBC’s “Andrew Marr Show” that “everything must be done” to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS): “I’m not urging troops on the ground but ultimately ISIL [ISIS] must be defeated … if possible through a UN-sponsored process, but if not that, then nations come together”.
The MPs recalled an apparent Stop the War statement blaming French military action for the attacks in Paris.
Ministers will set out the plans to bomb Isis in Syria by the end of the month, meaning MPs could authorise air strikes before Christmas.
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“I don’t doubt that the Russians believe every bit as much as we do in the need to destroy Isil”.
