The following Conservative MPs have indicated that they are against airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria.
John Baron MP (Basildon and Billericay)
“We have no excuse for setting out on the same tragic, misguided path once more.”
Baron wrote a piece for the Daily Mail: Cameron is long on emotion - and short on strategy: Tory MP John Baron ignores PM to vote NO to strikes
David Davis MP (Haltemprice and Howden)
Davis told BBC Radio 4’s The Today Programme on 1 December that he had ‘no idea’ how the Syria war will end. He said:
“Actually we know less about the end of this one than we did about Libya, or we believe we did about Libya, or indeed the Iraq war.”
In comments to the Guardian on 29 November, Davis wrote:
“If we focus our efforts on providing a marginal military input in Syria, we will no doubt feel better about ourselves. Perhaps David Cameron will feel that he has put us back in the front rank of the alliance. It might provide some good short-term headlines. But we will have wasted what might be the best opportunity for 10 years to bring a real solution to the tragedy that is Syria and Iraq today.”
Adam Holloway (Gravesham)
Writing in the Telegraph, Holloway warns of the UK making the same mistakes over again in carrying out airstrikes on ISIS in Syria:
"We are now being asked to extend the activity of manned British aircraft into Syria: a tiny tactical level contribution – unless you are on the receiving end of a bomb – which we are asked to believe will transform the strategic situation. This is not a meaningful defence of the British people, nor the people of Beirut, or Paris, or Mosul, or Raqqa."
Sir Edward Leigh MP (Gainsborough)
Leigh said that he wanted to see the “intelligence” to justify bombing Syria:
"I am happy to have discussions with the Secretary of State and even the Prime Minister if necessary, and for them to convince me and show me the intelligence which they must have, which will convince me and others like me that actually bombing Syria makes sense."
