Sentences with phrase «extending airstrikes»
Eleven of the 28 members of the shadow cabinet, including Benn and Eagle, voted in favour of extending airstrikes against Islamic State to Syria, a move Corbyn strongly opposed.
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Mr Benn is also disliked by some Labour supporters for voting in favour of extending airstrikes against Islamic State to Syria last year.
At the beginning of November, the UK parliament's foreign affairs committee (which has a Conservative majority) issued a report that was highly sceptical of the case for extending airstrikes against the terrorist group beyond Iraq into Syria.
Hours after the UK parliament approved to extend the airstrikes to include Syria, Royal Air Force Tornado attack planes, deployed to Akrotiri, Cyprus, flew their first raid on terrorist targets inside Syria, early in the morning on Dec. 3.
With most Tories in favour — plus the Liberal Democrats and the Democratic Unionists onside — the prime minister is expected to win parliamentary approval to extend airstrikes from Iraq to Syria.
Unsourced briefings to several newspapers over Christmas, attributed to people in Corbyn's camp, claimed that members of the shadow cabinet — including Dugher, as well as the shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, and the shadow defence secretary, Maria Eagle — could be removed as revenge for siding with the government over the question of whether to extend airstrikes against Isis to Syria.
Not exact matches
The House of Commons approved a motion late Monday to extend the campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant for a year, and expand airstrikes into Syria.
The US and Russia are poised to significantly up their stakes, and Prime Minister David Cameron has begun laying out the argument to extend British airstrikes into Syria as well.
MPs voted 397 to 223 — a comfortable majority of 174 — on Wednesday night to extend UK airstrikes from Iraq into Syria to hit ISIS territory.
But there is also a genuine and wholly legitimate disagreement over whether extending UK airstrikes to Syria will, in any substantive way, contribute to those goals.
The attack does not shift the UK parliamentary arithmetic which is stopping the Government putting to the Commons its wish to extend RAF airstrikes to Syria.