Jeremy Corbyn has told a meeting of Labour's National Executive Committee that “of course” he supports the use of “whatever proportionate and strictly necessary force is required to save life in response to attacks of the kind we saw in Paris". He was criticised by some Labour MPs for comments he made on Monday when he said he was "not happy" with a shoot-to-kill approach to dealing with a potential terror incident in the UK. He has now told the party's ruling body:

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Appearing on the Daily Politics, Labour and Co-operative MP John Woodcock criticised an article, since deleted, by the Stop the War Coalition headlined "Paris reaps whirlwind of western support for extremist violence in Middle East".

He said it was "akin... to blaming the Jews for their deaths under the Nazis" and hoped his leader Jeremy Corbyn - until recently chairman of Stop The War - would distance himself from the sentiment.

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Former shadow home secretary and Labour leadership contender Yvette Cooper told the Daily Politics she disagreed with Jeremy Corbyn's view on shoot-to-kill - and said Labour must support the police and security services in the "very difficult job" they do.

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In the Commons, MPs have been discussing the Cities and Local Government Bill, external at committee stage.

The minister James Wharton began by opposing a clause, inserted into the bill in the Lords, lowering the voting age in local elections in England and Wales and in elections for police and crime commissioners to 16.

He says lowering the voting age would be a major change to the building blocks of democracy.Before such a step the UK should seek to understand where public opinion stands he says.

It is a serious issue and "not one that should be inserted as an adjunct into a bill about devolution".

But, for Labour, shadow minister Liz McInnes argues there are more than 1.5 million 16 and 17-year-olds in the UK "who are currently denied any part in our democratic process".

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Daily Politics reporter Giles Dilnot spoke to Security Minister John Hayes, former Met Police chief superintendent Dal Babu and University and College Union general secretary Sally Hunt about the government's approach to preventing home-grown extremism.

A leading Lib Dem blogger reflects on Lord Rennard's decision to stand down from the party's federal executive committee a week after being elected onto the body. 

Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Crispin Blunt says getting an international political agreement around a transition for Syria should be the "first order issue" for establishing a compehensive strategy to defeat so-called Islamic State.

The Conservative MP told the BBC:

Sir Edward Leigh is setting out some interesting ideas for reform of the Lords. He suggests one option could be stopping peers over the age of 80 from being able to claim allowances or to vote. While he acknowledges there are octogenarian MPs who continue to make a major contribution, he says asking peers in their later years to troop through the lobby, often at anti-social times of the day and night, is rather "demeaning and unnecessary". He says the Vatican has such age-related arrangements in place and what "is good enough for the cardinals should be good for the other place". He also questions whether there should be as many clergy - the so-called lords spiritual - sitting on the red benches as there currently are. "They were twelve apostles so maybe 12 bishops would be enough, I don't know," he muses. Anyway, MPs agree the bill should be considered again at a future date. However, it is unlikely the ten-minute rule bill - which are largely vehicles for MPs to highlight an issue - will make any further progress unless it is backed by the government. 

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Business continues in the Commons, with MPs raising points of order about closures to HMRC offices and a report published on Tuesday which suggested an indirect link between benefit cuts and rising suicide rates in parts of the country. After the Speaker has dealt with these matters, Tory MP Sir Edward Leigh gets to his feet to put forward a ten-minute rule bill calling for reform of the House of Lords, including reducing it in size. He says action is needed because the Upper House has become "too large, too political, too comfortable and too prone to political patronage". A review of the powers of the Lords is currently taking place following a row over its decision to block proposed cuts to tax credits. 

David Cameron concludes his Commons statement, which lasted more than 90 minutes, by telling SNP John Nicolson that people should be "equally vehement" in their condemnation of any attacks on Muslim communities in Scotland and elsewhere in the wake of the Paris attacks as they were about the atrocities themselves. 

Conservative MP Rehman Chishti says it is important to refer to the extremist group occupying part of Syria and Iraq as Daesh rather than Islamic State or any variant on that as the latter title confers on it a degree of legitimacy. The prime minister agrees that the use of terminology is important and those that agree with the MP are making progress with more references to Daesh in Hansard - the official record of parliamentary proceedings - than ever before.  

A number of Labour MPs have spoken to attack suggestions the Paris attacks were the consequence of Western policy or France's military involvement in Syria. This was the argument made by the Stop the War Coalition, until recently chaired by Jeremy Corbyn, in a now-deleted online post headlined "Paris reaps whirlwind of western support for extremist violence in Middle East". One of them was shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who said on BBC Radio 4's Today such language was "shocking" and "wholly wrong".

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BBC political editor

It's back - the prospect of the government sending British planes to drop bombs in Syria.

Ministers have for months believed it illogical to strike so-called IS in Iraq but not over the border in Syria where their HQ is.

But the Paris attacks have led the PM to conclude "we have to ask if we are doing everything that we can do, and should do" to take extremists on alongside our allies.

For him, that means making the case for increasing intervention once again.

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David Cameron "spoke not just for the government but for the country", Labour MP Mike Gapes says. He asks if more can be done for Kurdish forces in Iraq.  

The prime minister said he hoped that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn would review his opposition - as stated in a BBC interview on Monday - with the shoot-to-kill policy for police in confronting terrorism. Mr Cameron said: 

Labour MP Emma Reynolds says any attempt to "somehow blame" the Paris attacks on the West, or France's military intervention in Syria, is "not only wrong, but disgraceful and should be condemned". Mr Cameron says the cheering from MPs that greets her remarks "shows how right she is". Another Labour MP, Pat McFadden, says trying to excuse terrorists' actions risks not treating them like adults and excusing them from responsibility.