Pressure on Cameron for new vote on Syria strikes
Source: Daily Telegraph (UK)
Lord Howard, a former Conservative leader, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, a former Foreign Secretary, and Lord Ashdown, a former Liberal Democrat leader, led calls to vote again on Sunday.
Sir Malcolm, the chairman of the intelligence and security committee, said the situation has moved on dramatically now and that the evidence is becoming more compelling every day.
In his Daily Telegraph column on Monday, Boris Johnson, the London mayor, also suggests another motion could be put inviting British participation. Mr Johnson, who has been highly sceptical of intervening in Syria, believes that Parliament has helped the international community by allowing a delay in the action for further evidence to be collected.
Signs of Labour disagreements over Ed Milibands response to the Syrian crisis were also beginning to emerge on Sunday. Jim Murphy, the shadow defence secretary, became the first senior Labour figure to admit that the case against the Assad regime over last months chemical weapons attack was not in doubt.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10279620/Pressure-on-Cameron-for-new-vote-on-Syria-strikes.html
The war hawks in the UK have not given up on military intervention in Syria.
Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)I kind of interpreted it that way.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Cameron made it clear he'd got it and we would have no military involvement. The original plan was for a second vote, maybe after the UN finding , but that was scrubbed.
Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)This stuff seems to change all the time.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts).
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)It already been made clear there is definitely no going back.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,148 posts)The deputy prime minister insisted the government would not "go back" to the House of Commons on the issue.
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In the Commons, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said: "We believe that Parliament has spoken clearly on this issue and is unlikely to want to revisit it unless the circumstances change very significantly."
The prime minister's official spokesman also told reporters the government "has absolutely no plans to go back to Parliament".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23925932
daleo
(21,317 posts)And the people are solidly against war. Cameron knows that his government would fall, then get thrown out of power, if he goes to war. That's how democracy works, sometimes.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)If the Syrian situation eases, no problem.
If Assad is emboldened by the lack of a response and steps up the atrocities, Cameron can point out that he tried to do the right thing but was thwarted by Parliament.