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‘Isolationist spring’: future votes and Congress
There seems to be a bit of buyer’s remorse in the air over Syria in some quarters but it won’t be enough to change the government’s position.
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There seems to be a bit of buyer’s remorse in the air over Syria in some quarters but it won’t be enough to change the government’s position.
Almost 100,000 people have died as a result of Syria’s two year conflict. Why did it take the suspicion of chemical gas for the west to consider intervention? Channel 4 News reports.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says the government will not go back to the Commons to force a second vote on Syria because MPs cannot defy the will of the British people.
Democracy means the UK will not be entering the Syrian conflict – does this mean a new way forward for the Uk and its politics?
Prime Minister David Cameron will not make a renewed attempt to persuade MPs to support military action against Syria even if new evidence of chemical attacks came to light, the chancellor says.
The UN team investigating allegations of chemical weapons attacks on rebels leaves Syria as the US says it is considering military action.
Several thousand protesters rally in Trafalgar Square to voice their opposition to military strikes against the Syrian government.
He has suffered a momentous Commons defeat, but David Cameron’s decision to rule out British military action in Syria puts him at one with public opinion.
A complex series of unanswered questions – Paul Mason looks at America’s sudden loss of diplomatic coherence and finds an uneasy Homeland.
How much has Britain’s global position changed since Tony Blair led us into the Iraq War in 2003? FactCheck compares Britain to the other UN Security Council members.
Among Syrian refugees in Lebanon, there is admiration for the independence of British MPs – but also confusion over the west’s reluctance to act.
Whatever William Hague says, the scars of the Iraq war are still being felt in Westminster, across the UK and in the bonds of the Anglo-American relationship.
International politics and diplomacy have masked the reality of torture, sexual violence and death for people living amid the carnage of Syria’s civil war.
Having displeased some senior party colleagues, Ed Miliband’s latest position on Syria is not only nearer to the public, but truer to himself.
With Iraq, we had the “dodgy dossier”. But with Syria, we have something that does exist: chemical weapons. And the UK Foreign Secretary clearly believes we can now go to war without any dossier at all – dodgy or sound.