Mr Corbyn opposed strikes while Mr Watson backed the action against Islamic State.
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Mr Corbyn ducked challenges to say whether he would halt air strikes in Iraq and urged MPs to “step back and vote against yet another ill-fated twist in the never-ending war on terror”. “But we agreed a free vote because of the sincerely-held differing views in the Parliamentary Labour Party”. Humility is an under-estimated trait in politics, hence why Labour’s foreign affairs spokesman was more plausible and logical than those Tory ministers whose modus operandi has always been more tribal.
“We all support and defend the democratic right to protest and lobby”.
During a visit to Bulgaria, Mr Cameron said: ” We’ve now got more Tornados and more Typhoons in Cyprus ready to take action both over the skies of Iraq and over the skies of Syria because we have to defeat Daesh wherever it is.
The party was then left in the odd situation of Mr Corbyn making the case in Parliament against bombing while Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn contradicted him and asked Labour MPs to back the Government.
“Momentum is not a threat to MPs who voted for bombing”. It is not clear whether the man is connected to Momentum. “The selection of candidates is entirely a matter for local party members and rightly so”.
Another Labour MP dismissed the “rampant speculation” about Mr Benn’s leadership ambitions and said he had now “nailed his colours to the mast over war”.
“Rather than splits, a much more favourable alternative might be for the Labour Party to have a leader elected by MPs and a leader in the country elected by the entire membership”, said Mr Field in a letter to The Independent.
O’Brien said it was “not a political comment” but a “personal” one.
Onlookers commented that while the shadow foreign secretary may not share his father’s views on foreign policy, he has certainly inherited the late Tony Benn’s gift for oratory.
And tonight, MPs overwhelmingly rejected calls from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to hold off on air strikes, opting to extend the UK’s military action from Iraq into Syria.
“It is about to become the House of Commons “where were you when Kennedy was shot” moment”, Labour-supporting journalist Dan Hodges wrote in the Daily Telegraph.
And in a speech which was, at times, delivered in scarcely more than a whisper to a rapt House of Commons, he told Labour “we never have and we never should walk by on the other side of the road”.
Stella Creasy, MP for Walthamstow, north-east London, where campaigners had marched outside her office, was also targeted with hundreds of negative and sometimes abusive messages.
The PM said: “We face a fundamental threat to our security”.
Revealing that he had received a death threat for his anti-war stance, the shadow chancellor said: “All of that intimidation is not acceptable”.
The same can not be said of Mr Corbyn. “That will come in months or perhaps years”.
Barrow-in Furness MP John Woodcock said he had “reported to police a Facebook purportedly from Barrow inciting criminal behaviour to give me a “wake up call” after Syria vote”.
“I think our overriding goal should be to end that civil war in Syria, and obviously also to protect the people of this country”.
He added: “There isn’t enough being done to tackle some of the nastiness and the vitriol from Momentum”. They act as a separate party operating within the Labour Party but with no real loyalty to the party.
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“It means effectively that in some of these seats where people don’t speak English and they sign up to postal votes, effectively the electoral process is now dead”, added Mr Farage.
