Cameron’s plea to Parliament was met with skepticism by opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn.
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In the Commons, Mr Cameron acknowledged IS – also known as Isis, Isil and Daesh – could not be defeated by air strikes alone, but stressed the need for action.
But Crispin Blunt, t he chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) – which earlier this month released a report urging caution over Syria – said he was now ready to back military action.
Cameron adopted an open, conciliatory tone with MPs, taking several hours of questions about the seven-point strategy on Syria he presented.
In a speech to the House of Commons, nearly a fortnight after terror attacks in Paris killed 130 people, Cameron said that the terrorist organization is using its safe havens in northern Syria to launch plots against Britain.
David Cameron says he will only call a vote if he is certain he will win.
After Hollande appealed to Germany to help fight ISIL, the country said Thursday it would send fighter jets to Syria for reconnaissance flights.
“They have already taken the lives of British hostages and inspired the worst terrorist attack against British people since 7/7 on the beaches of Tunisia”.
“We must come together to cut out the cancer of radical Islamism which brought carnage onto the streets of Paris and I believe will no doubt attempt to repeat the same evil on the streets of another European city sometime soon”.
He said it was “morally” unacceptable for Britain to leave the US, France and other allies to carry the burden.
Restricting UK air strikes to Iraq had “never made military sense”, and the RAF – with Brimstone missiles and the Tornado aircraft’s “dynamic targeting” capabilities – could make a “meaningful difference” to the campaign against IS, he said.
It is expected the Commons vote would take place on Tuesday. Military action would be accompanied by moves to deliver a democratic government in Syria, he added.
Asked if he wanted a free vote to be offered, which would allow the shadow cabinet not to formally rebel against their own leader, Benn told Today: “It may be that’s where we end up”.
He gave more details of what had been billed as a “comprehensive plan”, not just for bombs to fall on the so-called Islamic State’s stronghold in Syria, but a billion pounds for reconstruction; a perhaps optimistic assessment that there are 70,000 moderate forces on the ground with whom we could work; and an increasing confidence that the time is right to join America, France and even Russian Federation in air strikes. The Royal Air Force is already in action over Iraq.
British forces were involved in a protracted campaign in Iraq and have only recently withdrawn from Afghanistan after a 13-year involvement in conflict there.
Cameron said then that he would seek parliamentary approval to begin British airstrikes in Syria, a proposal that has been rejected by lawmakers in the past.
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Crispin Blunt said: “It is now my personal view that, on balance, the country would be best served by this House supporting his judgments that the United Kingdom should play a full role in the coalition, to best support and shape the politics, thus enabling the earliest military and eventual ideological defeat of Isil”.
