Conservative MPs in favour of airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria
The following Conservative MPs have indicated that they are in favour of airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria.
Peter Heaton Jones (North Devon)
The following Conservative MPs have indicated that they are in favour of airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria.
Peter Heaton Jones (North Devon)
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.”
The following Conservative MPs are undecided about airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria.
Ben Howlett (Bath)
Howlett says he is undecided about how he will vote. He says that he "would feel more confident in a decision if the Defence Select Committee also agreed that intervention was the right path to follow."
The following Labour MPs are undecided about airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria.
Jo Cox MP (Batley and Spen)
Jo Cox believes that to defeat ISIS you have to tackle Assad first to defeat ISIS. Here is an article she wrote for the Daily Mirror on 28 November.
The following Labour MPs have indicated that they are against airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria.
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth)
Abrahams will be voting against. She warns against airstrikes creating more refugees and radicalisation:
The following Labour MPs have indicated that they are in favour of airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria.
Mary Creagh (Wakefield)
Creagh will back airstrikes against ISIS. She writes about it in the Huffington Post:
Vote on Syria airstrikes.
On Wednesday 2 December, the UK Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of the UK taking part in airstrikes against ISIS in Syria. The vote followied a ten and a half hour debate. You can read the debate in full here. Some key moments from the debate can be found here. It can be watched in full here.
Q&A: UK Military action against ISIL in Syria
November 2015
The UK Parliament will be faced with its fourth decision on whether to engage in military action in the Middle East since 2010.
The government proposes that the UK join in military action in Syria against ISIL targets as it has been doing since September 2014 in Iraq.
The motion can be read here.
In an article in the Independent-on-Sunday on 29 November, Caabu Director, Chris Doyle argued that the real debate around Syria and ISIS should not be about the bombing but the overall strategy to resolve the Syria crisis and end ISIS.