Lancaster MP slams PM’s terrorist slur
Cat Smith, Labour MP for Lancaster and Fleetwood, has criticised Mr Cameron following the widely reported remarks he made to the 1922 committee (formerly the Conservative Private Members’ Committee) last night.
Mr Cameron is understood to have told MPs in the meeting: “You don’t want to walk through the lobbies with Jeremy Corbyn and a bunch of terrorist sympathisers.”
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Hide AdMs Smith said: “The Prime Minister belittles the office he holds by lowering himself to making such cheap remarks.”
She went on to say: “Not one MP has sympathised with ISIS, who are an evil organisation reaping terror across the Middle East and beyond.
“Polls suggest millions of British people, who are proud of our country and what we bring to the world, would also be included in David Cameron’s definition merely for using their basic democratic right to take a different position to his stance on this question shows how out of touch he is.”
MPs are expected to cast their vote tonight, Wednesday December 2, at 10pm, about whether to extend airstrikes against ISIS/Daesh in Syria as well as Iraq.
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Hide AdMs Smith added: “The decision on whether or not to take military action, to go to war, is the most serious decision an MP is ever asked to make and David Cameron’s remarks show a total disregard for this.
“MPs from all parties are voting on the basis of whether they think this action will prove effective, if it will improve or worsen the situation in Syria and whether it will positively or negatively affect our national security at home.”