Jeremy corbyn faces shadow cabinet revolt over syria is air strikes

Corbyn came under further pressure this weekend to allow his MPs to vote freely on military action after his deputy leader Tom Watson told the Independent he favoured a free vote.

“On certain issues, the ones really above party politics, we have got to have mature politics in our democracy now”.

Labour backbencher John Woodcock has warned it had been a bad week for Labour and the party must now “set that right”.

But because of the disarray in the Labour Party over airstrikes, the Government is still uncertain about when the Syria motion will be put to MPs. “It’s upto the Parliamentary Committee [the party’s backbench shopstewards], not the Leader, to decide how we run PLP meetings”, one MP said.

Cameron is hoping that the attacks that killed 130 people in Paris on November 13th will tip parliament in favor of launching strikes.

“When it comes to an issue of war, it is something that people think very profoundly about”.

But staunch Labour Party member Chris Burke, who joined the ranks exactly 40 years ago when Harold Wilson was Prime Minister, and his City of Lincoln colleague Karen Lee each agreed that calls for Mr Corbyn’s resignation were totally wrong at this time.

“When he says shambles, I know for example that during the shadow cabinet meeting there were people who were texting and briefing journalists”.

Jeremy Corbyn will be forced to let his Labour MPs have a free vote on Syrian air strikes this week.

On Thursday, the David Cameron pressed his “compelling” case, saying the strikes would make Britain safer.

He has opposed air strikes in Syria, which has threatened to tear apart the shadow cabinet, with senior Labour front benchers threatening to resign if Corbyn forces them to side with him. “And win over the House of Commons”, French President Hollande told AFP at the Commonwealth summit in Malta.

Jeremy Corbyn: “The Prime Minister has been unable to explain the contribution of additional United Kingdom bombing to a comprehensive negotiated political settlement of the Syrian civil war”.

Government Whips are thought to have pencilled in Tuesday and believe they would have enough support to carry the day, as the DUP and more than 20 Labour MPs have signalled they are ready to endorse action, offsetting any Tory rebels. “If we force a whipped vote for military action and Jeremy broke that, he’d have to go”.

Asked by another user why he had posted a link that allowed non-Labour members to fill it in, Mr Ashworth replied: “Because I think we should take account of views of voters”.

But the request was refused and Mr Benn, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, will be now be speaking at the gathering next to Mr Corbyn.

It will note that the resolution backs states to take “all necessary measures” to prevent terrorist acts by IS and to “eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria”. “It is and we should do it”, Mr Cameron said.

But later, Hilary Benn, Labour’s foreign affairs spokesman, said such differences were to be expected when considering military action, and although he backed extending air strikes, he respected Corbyn’s right to express his opinion.