British MPs have rejected possible UK military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government to deter the use of chemical weapons.
A government motion was defeated by 285 to 272, a majority of 13 votes.
PM David Cameron said "the government will act accordingly", effectively ruling out London's involvement in any US-led strikes against Damascus.
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After the vote in London, opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband said the result meant military action was "off the agenda", and added that MPs had reacted against the prime minister's "cavalier and reckless" leadership.
Thirty Conservative and nine Liberal Democrat MPs voted against the government's motion.
The defeat comes as a potential blow to the authority of Mr Cameron, who had already watered down a government motion proposing military action, in response to Labour's demands for more evidence of President Assad's guilt.
The prime minister has now lost control of his own foreign and defence policy, and as a result he will cut a diminished figure on the international stage, the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said. Full story...
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A government motion was defeated by 285 to 272, a majority of 13 votes.
PM David Cameron said "the government will act accordingly", effectively ruling out London's involvement in any US-led strikes against Damascus.
(...)
After the vote in London, opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband said the result meant military action was "off the agenda", and added that MPs had reacted against the prime minister's "cavalier and reckless" leadership.
Thirty Conservative and nine Liberal Democrat MPs voted against the government's motion.
The defeat comes as a potential blow to the authority of Mr Cameron, who had already watered down a government motion proposing military action, in response to Labour's demands for more evidence of President Assad's guilt.
The prime minister has now lost control of his own foreign and defence policy, and as a result he will cut a diminished figure on the international stage, the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said. Full story...
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