Summary

  • MPs vote by 397 to 223 to authorise UK air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria

  • RAF Tornado jets carry out their first air strikes against IS in Syria, the Ministry of Defence confirms

  • Four RAF Tornado jets take off from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus

  • During a 10-hour debate, David Cameron urged Tory MPs to 'take a stand' against IS

  • Jeremy Corbyn said the PM's case "does not add up" and could make the situation worse

  • Despite Tory rebels, PM was helped by votes of some Labour MPs, the Lib Dems and DUP

  • A separate cross-party amendment opposing airstrikes was defeated by 390 votes to 211

Live Reporting

Alex Hunt, Pippa Simm, Chris Davies, Aiden James and Rajdeep Sandhu

  1. More on the protests outside Parliament

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  2. Corbyn: Servicemen and women 'in harm's way'

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  3. Alex Salmond calls Commons' decision 'a mistake'

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    SNP MP Alex Salmond says the majority in tonight's vote for air strikes in Syria was "almost identical" to the majority in the vote in favour of invading Iraq in 2003.

    Scotland's former first minister says tonight's decision is "not a mistake of the same proportions but nonetheless a mistake of strategy".

  4. David Cameron welcomes the vote

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  5. 'Very few Syrians know about vote'

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    The BBC's Lyse Doucet, in the Syrian capital Damascus, says "very few Syrians knew anything about" tonight's vote in the UK Parliament.

    Commenting on the UK strategy for air strikes to back up "moderate" fighters on the ground, she says:  

    There is a going to be a real problem with the so-called boots on the ground, or surrogate fighters."

  6. Tristram Hunt hails Hilary Benn speech

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  7. Anti-war protests continue in Westminster

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  8. Graphic: Russian and US air strikes

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  9. SNP's Don't Bomb Syria campaign gets going

    An SNP petition against bombing Syria is rapidly gaining signatures, shortly after the Commons voted in favour of military action. It currently has more than 7,000 supporters. 

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  10. Graphic: Air strikes so far - where has been hit?

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  11. Bridget Phillipson backed air strikes

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  12. Graphic: Allied air strikes to date

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  13. Harriet Harman voted for air strikes

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  14. 67 Labour MPs with government and 'nine or 10' abstentions

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    BBC political correspondent Vicky Young says 67 Labour MPs voted with the government and "nine or 10 abstained".

    It looks like Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn "managed to keep about half his shadow cabinet alongside him", she adds.

    As it was a free vote, Vicky says it cannot as such be seen as "a test of Jeremy Corbyn's authority".

  15. Conservative MP praises 'remarkable' speech by Benn

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    Conservative MP Sir Alan Duncan says shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn delivered "one of the most remarkable parliamentary speeches I've heard".

    The former minister thinks the SNP "have come out worst today" and claims their MPs' arguments were weak and they did not sound "serious" on national defence.

  16. Laura Kuenssberg analysis: Cameron achieves his goal

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    David Cameron has achieved his long-held goal.

    Intervening against the extremist forces who call themselves the Islamic State in Syria - it seemed impossible less than a month ago.

    But in the weeks since the Paris attacks, the prospect of extending bombing strikes into Syria from Iraq has taken on a reluctant inevitability.

    Planes may be dropping bombs by tonight.

    But for the prime minister, with this, his third big foreign intervention - Libya, Iraq, now Syria - pulling together a wider plan to achieve real peace is a far more complex task, one he acknowledges the UK cannot complete on its own.

    Yet by choosing action, that's a task he faces new pressure to help deliver.

    For Labour too though the months ahead will be wracked with tensions that have been wound even tighter by the last few days' events.

    The decision to take military action is never taken lightly.

    But its political consequences could be heavy indeed.

    Pass one political test, another immediately follows.

  17. Hammond: Very pleased about number of Labour MPs voting in favour

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    Speaking after the vote on Syria air strikes, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says he's "very pleased that a significant number of Labour MPs voted with us to degrade this terrorist organisation".

    “Britain is safer because of the actions taken by MPs today." he adds.

    “We will see this operational as soon as practical but we won’t give a running commentary about how these operations are progressing.”

    There were all sorts of debates going on today. What I would say to members who didn’t vote tonight is to think carefully about the arguments put forward tonight, about the multi-strand approach we are taking in Syria. We are doing the right thing. Military strikes alone won’t help Syria, won’t keep us safe from Daesh. But this multi-strand approach will.”

  18. Let the people speak

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  19. Hammond: Never seen a speech like that from Benn before

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    I thought Hilary Benn’s speech was very good, I haven’t heard him give a speech like that before. It (the speech) was mainly to his own colleagues pleading with them not to abandon Labour’s long held tradition of internationalism”

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  20. Taxi home

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