The following Labour MPs have indicated that they are against airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria.
Debbie Abrahams (Oldham East and Saddleworth)
Abrahams will be voting against. She warns against airstrikes creating more refugees and radicalisation:
"Bombing in Syria will not only kill innocent civilians; it will displace many more refugees. Daesh has already recruited thousands of vulnerable refugees and will recruit many more as a result of bombing. I have a real concern that as air strikes will inevitably result in innocent civilian casualties there is a risk that military action will further alienate and disaffect people, at home and abroad, enabling the conditions for radicalisation to thrive."
Graham Allen (Nottingham North)
Allen will be voting against strikes. He writes:
"To throw into the mix a tiny UK air force (of perhaps no more than five jets) will only inflame the incendiary cocktail of religious, ethnic and sectarian violence and civil war that has been unleashed in the region."
Nick Brown - (Newcastle East)
Will vote against.
Richard Burgon (Leeds East)
Burgon argues in the Huffington Post that he does not believe dropping bombs on ISIS in Syria will make the UK safer.
Sarah Champion (Rotherham)
Unless the motion changes, Sarah Champion will be voting against.
Pat Glass (North West Durham)
"I do not believe that the PM has made the case for bombing. I have seen no credible plan particularly in relation to what happens when the bombing stops. I cannot see how dropping even more bombs is going to improve things for the people of Syria, 250,000 of whom have already died in this civil war.”
John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne)
Healey will vote against airstrikes, but does not rule them out at a future stage:
"In doing so, I do not rule out supporting airstrikes at some further stage if the balance of facts outlined above changes. Most importantly, I reject the argument that inaction is the only alternative action to bombing. There is still a great deal that the government can and must do: to help end the Syrian civil war; to put an end to ISIL, and to keep UK citizens safe."
David Lammy (Tottenham)
Lammy listed several concerns about airstrikes in Syria. It included:
"There is a worrying lack of strategy for the aftermath of any military intervention. I did not hear in the Prime Minister’s statement the required depth in outlining the long-term plan for Syria that must follow any military intervention. As such, it is not clear what the end goal is or how bombing ISIS in Syria will help us get there."
Ian Lavery (Wansbeck)
“Every expert suggests that it’s pointless having an aerial bombardment on Raqqa if it cannot be followed up by ground forces”
Ivan Lewis MP (Bury South)
Former Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Ivan Lewis will vote against strikes arguing: "The current proposal is a short term tactical measure which will neither strengthen our national security or enhance the protection of innocent civilians from brutality and murder. That is why I will oppose the Government on Wednesday."
Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston)
Madders will be voting against strikes, saying that "action at this stage risks pushing the end of the civil war in Syria further away, rather than bringing it closer."
Andy McDonald (Middlesborough)
McDonald says that US strikes have been unable to weaken ISIS, and that there are no credible ground troops:
"The US-led coalition has been bombing in Syria for over a year, yet has so far been unable to contain or weaken Daesh. This is because other than the Syrian Kurds in limited areas, there are no credible, non-Islamist ground forces other than President Assad’s."
Ian Mearns (Gateshead)
Will vote against arguing:"I don’t think that the case has been made by the Prime Minister, or I’m afraid to say by our front bench either
Ed Miliband (Doncaster)
The former Labour party leader has said he will oppose airstrikes against ISIS in Syria. He writes:
"I will do so because I do not think the case has been adequately made that extending British air strikes will either defeat ISIL or make us safer here at home. A strategy for the defeat of ISIL depends crucially on ground troops and a political settlement, or the path towards a political settlement. That is because ISIL cannot be defeated from the air alone, as even supporters of air strikes acknowledge, and because ISIL’s success depends on the vacuum created from a multi-sided civil war."
Grahame Morris (Easington)
Morris will not be voting in favour of airstrikes, he says he "cannot support airstrikes simply to be seen to be doing something."
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle Central)
Onwurah said she that agreed with David Cameron “that Daesh represents a real threat to UK citizens.” But she said: “He did not convince me that UK air strikes at this time would materially reduce that threat.”
Albert Owen (Ynys Mon)
Owen will not support airstrikes, he says "the international community and our own Government has failed to build a strong coalition in the region of countries willing to take on ISIL. "
Matthew Pennycook (Greenwich and Woolwich)
Pennycook says he cannot vote in favour of airstrikes, and explains his decision here.
Paula Sherriff (Dewsbury)
Sherriff says she will vote against strikes as she does not believe their are ground forces capable of defeating ISIS:
"I do not believe that the airstrikes proposed by the Prime Minister are the best form of action to take at this time and I am also unconvinced that there are currently ground forces with the capability to defeat ISIS / Daesh, without which airstrikes are of extremely limited use even just for a military strategy. On this basis the Prime Minister has failed to convince me that pursuing air strikes in Syria is part of a longer-term and comprehensive strategy and I therefore intend to vote against the motion."
Andy Slaughter MP (Hammersmith)
Will vote against the strikes. He explains his decision here.
Keir Starmer (Holborn and St Pancras)
Starmer writes in the Guardian that airstrikes are lawful, but he will be voting against them:
"In my view, airstrikes without an effective ground force are unlikely to make any meaningful contribution to defeating Isis. And there is no effective ground force. If, through international collaboration, a ground force can be agreed, the situation would be different. But the prime minister’s reliance on what he calls “around 70,000 Syrian opposition fighters on the ground who do not belong to extremist groups” to retake the ground from Isis is wholly unrealistic."
Wes Streeting (Ilford North)
Streeting voted against the strikes. He argued in the Guardian that the Government's case does not add up to the comprehensive strategy that is needed for Syria to defeat ISIS.
Nick Thomas-Symonds (Torfaen)
Votied against airstrikes in Syria. You can read his statement prior to the vote on his website here.
Valerie Vaz (Walsall South)
Prior to the vote in Parliament, Vaz said that she would be voting against airstrikes:
"Defeating Isil-Daesh requires a coherent political, diplomatic and military strategy which the emphasis on UK air strikes in Syria does not provide. I will be voting against the UK carrying out air strikes in Syria."
