Cameron Rallies Support For Britain To Join Syria Air Strikes

Mr. Cameron said he had offered the French air force the use of the RAF Akrotiri base on Cyprus to mount strikes on IS as well as RAF air-to-air refuelling support.

Mrs Lumley told the Advertiser that she was with the Prime Minister over plans for British troops to launch airstrikes on Islamic State (IS) terrorists after he laid out a seven-point plan in the Commons today.

Hague noted that the publication of the long-awaited Chilcot report into the war in Iraq will be “a time to acknowledge that we were wrong about the invasion of Iraq”.

Frankly Britain has never been a country that stands on the sidelines and relies on others to defend us, ‘ finance minister George Osborne told BBC television on Sunday.

“Senior Labour MPs who back the idea of extending military action against IS in Syria have started to go public”, he said.

Cameron lost a vote in Parliament two years ago to allow attacks on Syria, and has been reluctant to even suggest a vote until he could be certain to win.

Cameron wants to hold a vote in Parliament, but said he would only do so if “there is a clear majority for action, because we will not hand a publicity coup to ISIL” ” another acronym for the militant group. A vote is expected before a parliamentary recess in mid-December. It is by working with Muslim allies to stop this radicalisation, stop this extremism and stop Isil that we prevent this clash from taking place.

“We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies”, Mr. Cameron said.

The new investment is likely to be a key part of British government’s strategic defense review to be published next week. It is in Raqqa, Syria, that ISIL has its headquarters, and it is from Raqqa that some of the main threats against this country are planned and orchestrated.

But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran anti-war campaigner, wrote to his lawmakers later on Thursday to say Cameron had not made a convincing case.

Her predecessor, Alex Salmond, has said that the party believes a United Nations resolution would be required before it was able to back Mr Cameron on airstrikes.

“We can’t wait for a political transition, we have to hit these terrorists in their heartlands right now”. “We must tackle ISIL in Syria, as we are doing in neighbouring Iraq, in order to deal with the threat that ISIL poses to the region and to our security here at home”.

Mr Corbyn – who did not express a view one way or the other in his response to Mr Cameron in the Commons – angered some Labour MPs by then issuing a letter setting out his opposition in a move seen by some as an attempt to appeal over their heads to the grassroots.

Cameron visited the Bataclan in the French capital, scene of the worst loss of life during the Paris attacks, where he laid a rose with Hollande.