Monday, 30 November 2015

Open battle within Labour over airstrikes averted – back to the cold war

It is another messy compromise: Jeremy Corbyn declares that Labour is a party opposed to military action against Islamic State in Syria, by which he means the leader is opposed. Shadow cabinet ministers get to support action without formally defying the whip. It will be a free vote after all, but the leadership has maximised the moral authority it claims on behalf of the anti-war left, which in turn helps continue a process of marginalising those MPs who are perceived as refuseniks – or saboteurs – of the Corbyn project.

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