The Prime Minister spoke as RAF Tornados conducted air strikes on six targets in Syria, “successfully” attacking an IS-controlled oilfield.
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Defence Secretary Michael Fallon claimed on Thursday that RAF bombing raids against IS in Syria have dealt “a real blow” to the financing of the terror group.
British Prime Minister David Cameron talks to lawmakers inside the House of Commons in London during a debate on launching airstrikes against Islamic State extremists inside Syria, Dec. 2, 2015.
Britain’s intervention in Syria was welcomed by the U.S. and Russian governments.
Britain has joined air strikes on Syria in a show of European solidarity against the Islamic State group.
The pilot and navigator sit in the cockpit of an RAF Tornado GR4 as they taxi it on the runway at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, after returning to the base from carrying out some of the first British bombing runs over Syria.
The Commons vote was preceded by a marathon debate lasting more than 10 hours.
Sixty-six Labour MPs ignored pleas by their leader Jeremy Corbyn to oppose further military action and voted for air strikes helping to deliver a Government majority of 174.
Meanwhile, Russia, which keeps frustrating the US and its allies by refusing to decide if it is more interested in helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or fighting ISIS, is still very angry at Turkey for shooting down one of its jets.
US President Barack Obama said the US is looking forward “to having British forces flying with the coalition over Syria”.
Britain has already bombed Islamic State targets in Iraq and deployed unmanned drones in Syria.
Cameron has said he wouldn’t seek Parliament’s backing unless he was confident of getting it.
When parliament approved strikes on Iraq, the bombing began four days later.
In an interview in 2013, he said: “If we went to war on the basis of a lie, we need to bring the liars into court so we can then prosecute them for them”.
Although the British vote adds negligible new military capability to the coalition, it has taken on outsized political and diplomatic significance since gunmen and bombers killed 130 people last month in Paris.
“It will not make a big operational difference”, said Professor Malcolm Chalmers of military think-tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
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Ms Mactaggart released a statement prior to the vote which said: “The vicious death cult ISIL/Daesh is raping and torturing anyone who resists their ambitions to control the whole region, but I can not back action when I have no confidence that an air campaign will succeed in ending their murderous efforts to subdue the people of the region to their ends”.
