Francois Hollande urges MPs to back Syria air strikes

They included building worldwide support to end the civil war and begin a “transition” from Bashar Assad’s regime, as well as boosting Syrian groups fighting IS and cutting off the terrorists’ funding streams.

French President Francois Hollande also used a press conference at the summit in Malta on Friday to appeal to his fellow socialists in the U.K. Labour Party to back Cameron’s plan.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn warned of “unintended consequences” from airstrikes, but stopped short of saying he would oppose them.

Reacting to the news that his suspension had been lifted, Mr Fisher said: “I’m very pleased with the decision”.

It comes as Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said there is growing “momentum” among MPs in support of extending RAF air strikes against IS into Syria.

Labour MPs are meeting on Monday to discuss the issue further.

“We are not commenting on speculation”.

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”.

One member of the shadow cabinet, speaking anonymously to the right-leaning Daily Telegraph, said radical leftist Corbyn was “no longer fit to run the Labour Party”, citing a “breakdown of trust”.

Some MPs are also furious at an email sent from a Parliamentary email address by leftwinger Simeon Andrews, lobbying them to oppose any bid to authorise military action.

However, in a sign of Mr Corbyn’s absolute opposition to air strikes, MPs on 25 November were shocked to receive an email from the office of a close ally of the Labour leader criticising the Government’s plan for military action – despite it being nearly 24 hours before Mr Cameron had set out his case for air strikes.

On that occasion, Labour did not give its lawmakers a free vote and ordered them to vote against the government.

“I can only call on all British members of parliament, in solidarity with France but, above all, conscious of the fight against terrorism, to approve this intervention”, he said.

The protest was organised by the Stop The War Coalition protest movement, which is also holding a string of other demonstrations around Britain.

With the vast majority of the shadow Cabinet in disagreement with their leader on air strikes, Corbyn faced yet more criticism yesterday when it emerged that a survey had been emailed out to hundreds of thousands of Labour members and supporters asking for their views on Syria.

“This is a conflict that can not and will not be solved by bombing”, Mr Murray told the crowd.

Arguing that bombing could not work without boots on the ground, the former Mayor of London told LBC radio: “We cannot put British troops on the ground because they are too discredited after Iraq and Afghanistan”.

“All these points will be made in discussions that we will be having with members”, Mr Cameron said.

“I don’t think this is the way to support our friends in France”, Rylance, star of Wolf Hall and Bridge of Spies, told reporters.

Mr Hollande has met the leaders of Russian Federation, the US, Germany and Britain this week as he tries to form an global alliance to crush Islamic State.

But the report into extending British military activities to Syria was of particular importance and Cameron took the opportunity to make an impassioned plea for MPs to support air strikes in Syria.