UK yet to win parliament support for IS airstrikes
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Britain鈥檚 government has yet to win the support it needs to win parliamentary nod for launching airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria, Defense Minister Michael Fallon said yesterday.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said it is time to join the airstrikes against Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for killing 130 people in Paris earlier this month.
But several of his own Conservative Party and some lawmakers in the opposition Labour Party are wary of entering into another war in the Middle East after Western intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya failed to bring stability to the region.
Fallon said the government was holding talks with Labour lawmakers and, while it would like a vote to take place this week, it was still building the case for extending air strikes beyond Iraq, where it already supports US-led attacks.
鈥淲e鈥檇 like to have a vote for military action but we鈥檝e got to keep building the case,鈥 Fallon told the BBC鈥檚 Andrew Marr show.
Asked whether the government had got the votes needed to get parliamentary approval for the air strikes, Fallon said: 鈥淣ot yet...鈥
(Reuters)
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