David Cameron would be guilty of embarking on a “high-risk and
pointless endeavour” if he sought to extend the British bombing mission
against Islamic State forces in Iraq to Syria, a senior Tory MP and a former UK ambassador to Syria have warned.
As Downing Street lays the ground for a possible Commons vote to endorse an extension of the military campaign, Julian Lewis and Peter Ford said that joining forces with the US and other allied nations in the skies over Syria would be “extremely dangerous”.
Lewis, the Tory chairman of the House of Commons defence select committee, and Ford, a Labour member who served as ambassador to Syria between 2003 and 2006, issued their warning in a joint Guardian article.
As Downing Street lays the ground for a possible Commons vote to endorse an extension of the military campaign, Julian Lewis and Peter Ford said that joining forces with the US and other allied nations in the skies over Syria would be “extremely dangerous”.
Lewis, the Tory chairman of the House of Commons defence select committee, and Ford, a Labour member who served as ambassador to Syria between 2003 and 2006, issued their warning in a joint Guardian article.
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