Syria air strikes: Morgan says Labour effectively two parties

“The selection of candidates is entirely a matter for local party members and rightly so”.

“If they are Labour party members, and I am not sure whether they are, but if they are they have either forgotten or never knew what the party values were”.

The Labour leader said yesterday bullying would not be accepted in his party.

During a visit to Bulgaria, Mr Cameron said: ” We’ve now got more Tornados and more Typhoons in Cyprus ready to take action both over the skies of Iraq and over the skies of Syria because we have to defeat Daesh wherever it is. “We are calling for votes of no-confidence to be taken as well as lobbies of MP surgeries and constituency offices”. “He is an honest, principled, decent and good man, and I think the Prime Minister must now regret what he said…and his failure to do what he should have done today, which is simply to say “I am sorry”.

“That’s not the kinder, gentler, honest kind of politics that Jeremy Corbyn claims to stand for”.

“It is very, very rare for MPs to applaud in the Commons but they applauded Benn because they recognised that this was something special (just as they applauded Robin Cook when he spoke against the Iraq war in 2003)”, he said.

Blair accepted, as Margaret Thatcher did before him, that the U.S. was the leader of the so-called “free world”, submitting totally to that leadership.

David Cameron’s strategy of not bringing a vote to Parliament on Syria until he was sure of a clear victory was handsomely vindicated tonight.

Britain’s House of Commons has voted overwhelmingly to launch airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria, bolstering the U.S.-led campaign against the group.

“The abuse they are getting, the words they are using are just horrendous”.

“I respect people have come to a different view from the government than the one I will set out today…”

“They also want representatives in Parliament who will see those sort of policies through so there is going to be a debate around issues like who represents Labour in Parliament”.

“It is not about left or right, this is about the incompetent way things are being done”.

“In my view, only a negotiated political and diplomatic endeavor to bring about an end to the civil war in Syria will bring some hope to the millions who have lost their homes, who are refugees, and who are camped out in various points all across Europe, dreaming of a day when they can go home”. ‘What we have in Momentum is a campaigning organisation, ‘ he said.

Jeremy Corbyn retains the support of the “overwhelming majority” of all sections of the Labour Party over his opposition to air strikes in Syria, shadow chancellor and close ally John McDonnell has said.

“It’s completely inconceivable for anyone to argue that there hasn’t been a well-organised, systematic and well-resourced attempt to bully MPs into voting against airstrikes on Syria”. But this is not to say that arguments against military action then were invalid, or indeed that the case against now is without merit.

Former leadership contenders Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall praised the shadow Foreign Secretary’s contribution but other senior Labour MPs told The Courier those talking of a leadership bid were “trouble makers”.

But senior Labour sources rejected the suggestion that there was more that Corbyn could do to deal with online troublemakers.

The speech puts Benn “in pole position to be a future leader” of the party, added McTernan, a critic of Corbyn’s leadership.