Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Search for:. UK intervention in Syria: why Theresa May won her vote in , while David Cameron lost his in 0 comments 16 shares Estimated reading time: 10 minutes. Table 2: Vote switchers, compared to As Table 2 shows, May benefitted from vote-switching among MPs who were in parliament in both and Table 3: Personnel changes, compared to As Table 3 shows, personnel changes between and boosted both the pro-government and anti-government votes while reducing the number of abstentions.
Table 4: Attitude changes, compared to The first two columns show that the issues MPs most cared about shifted between the two occasions.
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John McNally Falkirk. John Nicolson East Dunbartonshire. Kirsten Oswald East Renfrewshire. Kirsty Blackman Aberdeen North. Margaret Ferrier Rutherglen and Hamilton West. Marion Fellows Motherwell and Wishaw. Martin John Docherty West Dunbartonshire. Martyn Day Linlithgow and East Falkirk. Mhairi Black Paisley and Renfrewshire South. Mike Weir Angus. Neil Gray Airdrie and Shotts. Owen Thompson Midlothian. Patricia Gibson North Ayrshire and Arran.
Patrick Grady Glasgow North. Pete Wishart Perth and North Perthshire. Peter Grant Glenrothes. Philip Boswell Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill. The Stop the War Coalition has put out a statement about the result of the vote. However, we feel the speeches and votes of pro-war Labour MPs shows how little they understand the lessons of Iraq and other previous wars. Like the Bourbons they have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing.
The list of Labour MPs who voted for air strikes is here, at Updated at 3. Uniformed soldiers with phones to their heads. Clear skies above. Not a breath of wind. LBC SyriaVote pic. Standing at the end of the runway at Akrotiri Final labour numbers - 66 in favour, against, 11 absent. And, according to the Press Association, seven Tory MPs defied the whips and voted against airstrikes. According to the Press Assocation, 66 Labour MPs voted for the government motion approving airstrikes.
Shadow Cabinet: 11 yes to airstrikes, 16 No, chief whip abstention pic. On Newsnight Philip Hammond , the foreign secretary, warnsthat airstrikes against Isis could go on for quite some time. Asked if they could last as long as four years, he replies:.
Ally of hilarybennmp tells me: treatment by jeremycorbyn tipped him over edge into delivering that speech. I believe the House has taken the right decision to keep the UK safe - military action in Syria as one part of a broader strategy.
Tories say 7 Tories voted against main motion and 7 abstained. British airstrikes on Isis in Syria by weekend Tomorrow's Guardian pic. They're holding a minutes silence at the SyriaVote anti war protest It's starting to rain pic. Max Schnieder, a Momentum organiser, rejected the suggestion that the movement would be mobilised against MPs who voted for airstrikes. We have made it absolutely clear that we are not campaigning on deselection.
Of course, we think that people who are voting on bombing are wrong and we are disappointed in each person that we were unable to win the argument with them.
We have been encouraging our supporters and others who are opposed to bombing to write to their MPs and tell them that David Cameron has not made the case for war and so we are here in solidarity with the other protestors. They are here to push their own agenda. Belinda Chapman, who was carrying a Stop the War placard, remonstrated with Bexley when she heard him criticising Momentum.
We want them out of our party.
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