Labour leadership in turmoil over vote on UK military action in Syria

 PA Labour leadership in turmoil over vote on UK military action in Syria Jeremy Corbyn and Labour’s shadow foreign secretary adopted sharply opposing views on UK military action against Islamic State hours after David Cameron argued it was time to extend bombing to Syria.

The Labour leader wrote to his MPs saying that the prime minister had failed earlier in the day to explain how an aerial campaign would protect UK security, setting up an intense debate in the party ahead of an expected Commons vote next week to broaden RAF airstrikes from Iraq to Syria. “I do not believe the prime minister’s current proposal for airstrikes in Syria will protect our security and therefore cannot support it,” Corbyn wrote.