MP Sorry For Corbyn Shoot-To-Kill Confusion

Sir Nicholas said he would be anxious if such an approach was “translated into power”, prompting Mr Corbyn to argue that the head of the armed forces had overstepped the mark and breached conventions that the military should stay out of party political matters.

He denied police had a “shoot-to-kill” policy but defended use of lethal force to stop terrorist killing sprees.

Jeremy Corbyn has given an interesting round of interviews to the broadcast media this afternoon, in which he has questioned the legality of the drone strike which is believed to have killed Mohammed Emwazi, or “Jihadi John”, and said he would be “unhappy” with a shoot-to-kill policy on Britain’s streets.

He chose to say nothing to the millions of people in the United Kingdom and elsewhere who would have no doubt agreed with his critique of Britain’s predatory wars and instead went into discussions with the very forces who have waged these wars and who are seeking to use the Paris atrocities to urge an escalation of military action in Syria.

“We do need to speak responsibility and we should be speaking coherently on domestic security and also on the global situation”.

Jeremy Corbyn would be forgiven if he recalled the Churchill observation that in the House of Commons the opposition’s in front of a leader and the enemy is behind.

Corbyn told ITV’s Lorraine: “I am not saying sit round the table with Isis, I am saying bring about a political settlement in Syria which will help then to bring a few kind of unity government – technical government – in Syria”, he said.

“It’s been the policy of successive governments both Labour and Conservative”.

“I want to see him change a few of his policies”.

He has said himself he willl be here “plenty of times”, and the reality is he has a strong vested interest with the result in Wales, together with Labour’s performance in the Scottish parliament and London mayoral elections, being a major test of his leadership.

The move is likely to cause fresh anger among Labour MPs, who have already savaged Mr Corbyn over his interventions in recent days.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday cancelled a speech in the wake of the Paris attacks, in which he would have suggested that British bombing operations against Islamic State (IS) had contributed to an increased threat to national security. I think that is quite risky and I think often it can be counterproductive. “I feel the Labour party is like a great ship of state holed below the waterline and is now gently sinking below the waves”, one former shadow cabinet minister said. “I think you have to have security that prevents people firing off weapons where you can”.

He added: “Jeremy Corbyn and I are absolutely clear we must do everything we possibly can to end Isil”. But he has said he hopes to win them over to his view before a key Commons vote over the coming months.