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Syria vote: Should MPs vote to send in RAF bombers?

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The Prime Minister said the Commons faced a choice between backing action against the group in its Syrian stronghold or sitting back and waiting for a terrorist attack on Britain's streets.

But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is opposed to extending the bombing campaign from Iraq into Syria, warned against an "ill-thought-out rush to war".

Mr Cameron said the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and MI5 both assessed that the UK was among IS's "top tier" targets, while the attacks last month on Paris underlined the extent of terrorist planning in Syria.

"It was, if you like, the head of the snake in Raqqa in action," he said. "The House should be under no illusion that these terrorists are plotting to kill us and to radicalise our children right now."

The Prime Minister also defended his controversial claim that there were 70,000 moderate opposition fighters in Syria, saying it was the estimate of the JIC - the UK's senior intelligence body.