Labour Party says most members against air strikes in Syria

Cameron’s previous government suffered a humiliating defeat in 2013 over military action against the Assad regime and did not push joining air strikes in Syria to a vote past year, amid resistance from Labour.

Asked whether there would be a vote in parliament this week, Fallon said: “We’d like to have a vote for military action but we’ve got to keep building the case”.

Nevertheless, Mr Cameron – who has always said he will only go back to Parliament if he was sure of winning – clearly now believes that he has the numbers in the bag to offset any Tory rebels still opposed to intervening. Trying to achieve a political settlement in Syria and cutting off Isis funding, oil trading and weapons supply should be the priority, he said.

Together with former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, Cameron was among the principal sponsors of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation intervention in 2011 which led to the ousting of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

“Frankly, I think the threat of mass resignations has been exaggerated but we will have to see”.

However, Corbyn asserted his authority by reminding MPs of his large mandate and making clear that he alone would decide whether to whip them to vote against extending airstrikes on IS strongholds in Sryia.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is opposed to the strikes and could whip his MPs into voting against them, despite many in the shadow cabinet expressing support for the government’s plans.

“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.

In the letter, Corbyn said there must be “full and adequate” time for a debate before a vote was taken.

Abbott, the worldwide shadow development secretary and Corbyn ally, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he should face down his internal critics.

Britain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The Labour leader’s decision will be communicated to the whole party at a meeting of MPs and peers at 6pm on Monday.

“I think public opinion is moving towards us in opposing the rush to war, that’s why so many right-wing newspapers and commentators are opposed to the Syrian airstrikes”, she said. I think it’s a matter for the leader, in consultation and in particular in consultation with the chief whip.

Britain can not wait for a representative government to emerge in Syria and must launch immediate airstrikes to eradicate ISIL, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has said in a statement at House of Commons on Thursday.

“Decisions have to be well thought through, as in any aspect of life”, said Rajoy, who added Madrid was in touch with its allies pending a clear plan of action.

“Any attempt to force Labour’s leader out through a Westminster Palace-coup will be resisted all the way by Unite and, I believe, most party members and affiliated unions”.

The motion will note the United Nations resolution calls on member 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”. I talk to people who do not agree with me, I talk to people who agree with me.