David Cameron
has said he plans to stage a quick Commons vote on extending airstrikes
in Syria next week, saying he will make an oral statement to MPs this
Thursday and then ask them to consider his proposals over the weekend
before going to a full debate and vote.
The prime minister told MPs on Monday: “I don’t want to bounce the house into this. Members of parliament will be able to take it away, consider it over the weekend, and then we go to having a full day’s debate and proper consideration, and a vote. We shouldn’t take too long over it. Every day that we spend is a day that we’re not getting to grips with the Isil menace.”
Cameron’s timetable also gives time for the defence secretary, Michael Fallon, to brief individual MPs. Many Labour MPs and probably a majority of the shadow cabinet are open to airstrikes so long as they are part of a wider political and diplomatic strategy, including ideally a ceasefire between Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, and most rebel forces apart from Isis (also known as Isil) and al-Nusra front.
The prime minister told MPs on Monday: “I don’t want to bounce the house into this. Members of parliament will be able to take it away, consider it over the weekend, and then we go to having a full day’s debate and proper consideration, and a vote. We shouldn’t take too long over it. Every day that we spend is a day that we’re not getting to grips with the Isil menace.”
Cameron’s timetable also gives time for the defence secretary, Michael Fallon, to brief individual MPs. Many Labour MPs and probably a majority of the shadow cabinet are open to airstrikes so long as they are part of a wider political and diplomatic strategy, including ideally a ceasefire between Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, and most rebel forces apart from Isis (also known as Isil) and al-Nusra front.
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