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Crossbench peer and former Army officer Lord Ramsbotham says he welcomes the government's proposal that military action should be "part of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria". However, he asks: "Why only Syria?" He thinks there should be a coalition against the Islamic State group "everywhere", including Syria's president Assad "whether or not he is going to be part of a longer-term solution".

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Conservative MP Adam Holloway says he speaks as "a soldier, a television reporter and now as an MP who has visited countries in some of the most difficult situations".

"War and conflict are the result of broken politics", he says.

Mr Holloway says air strikes play their part but they are "very much further down the to-do list" than addressing the issues of "detaching disenfranchised Sunnis from ISIS"

"Their choice currently is ISIS and security from Shia militias or facing the Shia militias", he says.

Mr Holloway finishes by saying "it is politics mainly that will fix this and the biggest thing the UK can do now....is talk to people seriously about there being a long term strategy that results in a cure".

"Bombing can only ever be palliative".

SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh asks whether adding to the number of countries currently bombing Syria will help the people who live there.

She says the proposals put forward today lack "credible peace-building plans" and she will not be voting for them.

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Crossbench peer Lord Low of Dalston says he was "scandalised into putting my name down to speak" by David Cameron's comments that opponents of military action are "terrorist sympathisers".

"Those are not the words of a statesmanlike prime minister seeking to lead a unified nation to war," Lord Low says. "They are a disgrace." He further suggests that such treatment of opponents is "to adopt the mindset of Isil, not that of a leader of a free country".

He says that, in "the view of the humble peer in the street", IS should be "completely eliminated" but opposes military action because the organisation is like "a hydra" and the US-led coalition in Syria has been "largely ineffective".

Conservative Andrew Tyrie says he will vote against the government and oppose air strikes.

He says the commitment in the motion not to use British ground troops is "very significant" and shows we may "lack the will" to shape the outcome of the conflict.

He says "we simply haven't heard enough from the government" about reconstructing Syria post-conflict.

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So far, the debate in Britain appears to have made little or no impact on IS itself, according to BBC Monitoring's Jihadist Media Team, which looks at open conversations and comment on official and social media channels.

They say there's been nothing from IS or its supporters to give a good steer on how the group might respond.

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Former Defence Secretary Lord Hutton becomes another Labour peer to back the government's position. He says he believes that opposition to so-called Islamic State needs "an effective military component" and the RAF has "important military capabilities that we can bring to bear".

Labour MP John Woodcock says not to extend air-strikes to Syria "flies in the face of military logic", given that is where IS headquarters are.

Woodcock says he will "do everything I can" to prevent the Labour party becoming "a vanguard for a sort of angry intolerant pacifism", which will vote against any military intervention

He adds that some people on his front bench "need to think very carefully about how they are conducting themselves".

The prime minister has decided the enemy he wants to bomb is now called Daesh. (pronounced Die-esh) and he wants the media to follow. He told MPs earlier:

So will they?

The group itself shortened its name in June 2014 to Islamic State. The American Government calls it Isil.

The Sun is discussing the issue but at the moment still calls it IS. The Times' uses Islamic State, followed by (Isis) in brackets. The BBC prefers ‘so-called Islamic State’ and the New York Times uses a mixture of Islamic State and Isis. However, large parts of the media in Spain and France have now begun to use the word Daesh.

The BBC response today was that they are continuing to call it ‘so-called Islamic State’. A spokesman said:

ITV News will continue to use IS, Isis, and “so-called Islamic State”, rather than Daesh, saying “our audience is more familiar with these terms”.

And the Daily Telegraph says: “We use a range of terms to refer to this terrorist group but we note, with interest, the PM's change.”

Conservative Daniel Poulter says that it is important to "strike at Isis in its heart in Syria" to protect people in the UK, and he will support the government.

He adds that it is because if IS that we have a refugee crisis.

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Peter Kellner, from polling company YouGov, says there's been a big drop in public support for air strikes - 11% over the past week

What's the explanation? Peter Kellner notes that the previous polling was taken very soon after the Paris attacks and says also that "the intense media coverage of the last few days has concentrated people's minds".

While this should be good news for Jeremy Corbyn - who is against air strikes - the Labour leader's own ratings "have been tanking" over the same period, he adds.

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"I look at my party's leadership and I despair," says Labour peer Lord Mitchell. "Since when did we become a party of pacifists?"

Labour MP Richard Burden says he does not accept that it is moral to attack IS in Iraq and not in Syria, however he is concerned about attacking the Syrian city of Raqqa without ground forces.

He says there is a risk that the air strikes could hand a propaganda victory to IS, and that he cannot vote for them as a result.

Labour's Kate Hoey asks why "we always have to be the policeman going in first?"

She says bombing will not keep the UK safe, and says there is no moral case for war.

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Peter Ford, former British ambassador to Syria, says UK bombing in Syria "would be futile" and make UK citizens "less safe".

But General Sir Mike Jackson says: "I think we're at risk now, let alone tomorrow."

He backs the extension of the UK's bombing campaign in Iraq to Syria

He backs the extension of the UK's bombing campaign in Iraq to Syria  

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Former Labour Defence Minister Baroness Taylor of Bolton condemns "the amount of abuse that has been leveled at people on both sides of this argument". She says David Cameron was wrong to call people opposing action "terrorist sympathisers" and was "even more wrong" not to apologise. She adds that it is also wrong for opponents of military action "to threaten and to abuse those who are voting in a different lobby".

Baroness Taylor also says she is "very worried about the amount of abuse that British Muslims are getting at the moment".