WATCH YER BACKS, CORBYN TELLS MPs
Jez warns over air strike vote
DEFIANT Jeremy Corybn warned his MPs there would be “no hiding place” if they back plans to bomb Isis in Syria.
The Labour leader vowed they would face the wrath of the “vast majority” of the party’s grassroot supporters who oppose planned air strikes.
Mr Corbyn was this week forced into a U-turn to give his MPs a free vote over the attacks.
And up to 100 Labour members could vote in favour of the bombings.
But Mr Corbyn said: “MPs have got to make up their own minds. On the Labour side they’ve got a free vote, they have to make their own decision.
“I’m being criticised for that by some people. Maybe people should think of it another way.
“I’m saying to every MP you make up your own mind, there’s no hiding place behind a whipping arrangement or not.”
He added: “Everything I am hearing is that more and more of Labour colleagues, having consulted constituents, are coming round to the view of opposing the war in Syria.”
Prime Minister’s Questions has been cancelled to let MPs debate air strikes for 10 hours today.
They are expected to hold a ballot at 7pm tonight. ANGRY Stop the War campaigners staged protests last night against David Cameron’s proposal to bomb Isis terrorists in Syria.
Hundreds gathered outside Westminster before marching on both the Tory and Labour party HQs on the eve of the Commons vote.
Stop the War boss Andrew Murray said: “Britain is being sucked into another illegal, open-ended conflict which will achieve nothing beyond giving the cycle of violence another spin.”