Parliament is expected to be recalled on Friday to discuss British military intervention against Isis. David Cameron will hold talks with his Iraqi counterpart today, with Haider al-Abadi expected to make a formal request that Britain join the military action.
Labour is staying supportively non-committal at the moment, with Ed Miliband saying again on the Today programme that Labour hadn’t yet been approached, but that it would consider anything the government put on the table:
‘I think the situation in Syria is somewhat different, in that’s it’s not a democratic state, we’ve got the Assad regime in Syria, we called yesterday, we supported the American action, but we called yesterday for a UN security council resolution. I think for the legitimacy of the action taken in Syria it would be better to have a UN security council resolution.
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