One politician’s powerful speech on Syria moved British lawmakers to tears and

One after another, leading Blairites, who already have blood on their hands from the Iraq war, spoke in favour of military action.

Usually, a political party leader would whip around and make sure, after a long discussion, that politicians should vote in one certain way (or at least most of them) so the group would be united in what the party stands for and how it represents its voters.

Mr Watson rejected suggestions that he was himself angling to replace Mr Corbyn as leader. We have pushed them back and recently captured Sinjar…Again Western airstrikes were vital. We wanted the nations of the world working together to deal with threats to worldwide peace and security.

In the email, they said: “Politics must be conducted in a better way – more civil and more respectful”.

“We all support and defend the democratic right to protest and lobby”.

“It is now time for us to do our bit in Syria and that is why I ask my colleagues to vote for this motion tonight”.

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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”.

“To use an issue of such importance to try to divide the Labour Party is reprehensible”, said Mr Watson, adding that anyone intimidating MPs or their staff “should be removed from the party”.

Former SNP leader Alex Salmond drew fire from Mr Benn’s niece, Emily, after telling LBC radio that Tony Benn would be spinning in his grave had he heard his son’s Commons speech.

“What this will show is all those fears, that a lot of Labour MPs genuinely had, that in Jeremy we had a leader who could not win, that’s now gone…The fact we have done so well in this one is a very strong indicator if you can do that here, we can do that everywhere else”.

Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who delivered a rousing speech arguing against Mr Corbyn’s position, was among those who voted for extending air strikes into Syria.

And Stockport MP Ann Coffey, who received emails branding her a “warmonger” and a “red Tory”, said that “unfortunate” comments from senior party figures had effectively given campaigners “permission to target MPs”.

The bullying of Labour MPs “flies in the face of everything” he believed in, he said, and there was no place in the party for those who engaged in abusive behaviour.

“It’s not acceptable in a civilised society for MPs to receive death threats, no matter how emotive the issue might be”, he told the Manchester Evening News.

At the end of a week in which the Syria vote brought divisions within Labour to the boil, Mr Watson also warned some of Mr Corbyn’s internal critics that they had gone “too far” in their public criticisms of the leader.

Embarrassingly, shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn is in open conflict with Corbyn over the bombing campaign in Syria. “To say they should be subjected to a witch-hunt or a campaign against them is wrong”.

But he added that Labour has been through “much worse in its 115 year history” and “we’ll come through”.

I have been a member of the Labour Party for fifteen years and never have I witnessed anything like yesterday. Of course, airstrikes alone will not defeat Daesh, but they make a difference, because they give it a hard time, making it more difficult for it to expand its territory.

“The election of Jeremy Corbyn reflected a mood among a whole layer of people for change in politics. I think people responded to that at the ballot box”.