Labour is divided on whether to support Mr Cameron’s call for air strikes, with about half of the shadow cabinet believed to back intervention. The poll has been criticised as an attempt to use his grassroots powerbase to “bounce” the shadow cabinet into submitting.
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The Labour leader will also press Cameron to delay the vote until Labour’s concerns about the justification for the bombing are addressed, as part of a deal he has thrashed out with the deputy leader, Tom Watson, and other senior members of the shadow cabinet over the weekend.
But most British Muslims believe the airstrikes will simply not destroy the group, he said.
The problem is that Corbyn – a left-winger who helped found the prominent Stop The War Coalition protest movement – opposes air strikes, while many of his MPs support the move.
Cameron hopes to build a majority to avoid a repeat of the damaging defeat parliament handed him in 2013, when it voted against launching air strikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Asked if there was any chance party divisions could force his resignation, Mr Corbyn said: “I’m not going anywhere”.
But the reason the Prime Minister won’t bring a vote to the House of Commons is that he doesn’t have his own party on side either.
The veteran MP, who was a regular rebel on the backbenches, said: “I understand dissent, I understand disagreement from leadership”.
“It has been working in Iraq, where we have shrunk the territory of ISIL, and it will work too in Syria”, he added.
The Campaign for Socialism, a group of left wing Scottish Labour members and supporters, has called for a whipped vote to ensure Mr Cameron’s plans are defeated.
David Cameron has always maintained that he will only put military action to a vote if he is sure of a victory.
Some Labour MPs questioned whether there would be a genuinely free vote, with John Woodcock, who supports military action, complaining of “certain people floating around the edges” warning of the “dire consequences” for MPs political futures if they went against Mr Corbyn.
WHEN Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour party, the event caused widespread merriment, not least among his political opponents.
The results of the survey ordered by party leader Jeremy Corbyn come as he prepares to meet his shadow cabinet to try and agree a collective position on military action.
Shadow Justice Secretary Lord Falconer confirmed there were “significant differences” within the shadow cabinet and said frontbenchers should not be “forced” to resign by the imposition of a whip.
Britain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The Labour leader, who has spent the last couple of days amassing evidence of grass roots support for his position, is expected to deliver a riposte to critics in a high-profile interview.
Diane Abbott, one of Corbyn’s closest allies, told BBC radio Monday morning that she opposed a free vote: “It’s a matter for the leader what the whipping will be but we are a party of government, and a party of government has to have a position on matters of peace and war”.
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“As such, we would urge MPs to learn the lessons of the past, and not to vote for extending air strikes over Syria”, he said.
