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Corbyn faces shadow cabinet revolt over Syria air strikes

Jeremy Corbyn has cancelled a visit to a by-election campaign in Oldham amid a shadow cabinet revolt over air strikes in Syria.

Mr Corbyn told Labour MPs that he cannot support the strikes, prompting a furious reaction and resignation threats from the shadow cabinet.

On Thursday, David Cameron urged the House of Commons to back military action against so-called Islamic State in Syria, saying the group posed a "serious and undeniable" threat to Britain.

But in a letter to his MPs, Mr Corbyn rejected Mr Cameron's claim that air strikes would make Britain safer.

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Cameron on UK air strikes in Syria: If not now, when?

David Cameron has said if the UK doesn't act now by launching air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria, then Britain's allies "could be forgiven for asking if not now, when?"

The Prime Minister is presenting his case to MPs in the Commons for the UK to begin airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria.

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