Diane Abbott is pressed by David Dimbleby on whether she supports air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Iraq. This action was overwhelmingly backed by MPs last year after a request from the Iraqi government. But Ms Abbott voted against it.

"It's legal", Ms Abbott replies. "I think its legality is important."

If the action is part of a broader strategy, she says: "Of course it's right."

Conservative MPs pressed Mr Corbyn to say whether he backed the Iraq action in the Commons on Wednesday night.

MPsbacked intervention last nightby 397 votes to 223, after an impassioned 10-hour Commons debate.

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• Syria strikes: What you need to know

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"There are different views about this in my party", says shadow international development secretary Diane Abbott, stressing that the majority of Labour members were against bombing.

She says she understands people think something must be done after the Paris attacks, but says the military intervention will not make people safer.

Ms Abbott is an ally of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who opposed air strikes.

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Education Secretary Nicky Morgan says it was right to back air strikes, though she says it was a difficult decision. More needs to be done to counter radicalisation, she adds.

The man asking the first question - about extending bombing so-called Islamic State to Syria - thinks MPs made the right decision last night. But a woman in the audience thinks there should have been a referendum.Another woman says young people being radicalised are being "groomed".

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BBC chief political correspondent Vicki Young says the by-election is a test Jeremy Corbyn "should easily pass". The fear for Labour, she says, is that the party's divisions at Westminster could have a negative effect. And UKIP are "snapping at Labour's heels", she adds.

Polls have closed in the by-election to elect a new MP for Oldham West and Royton.

The poll, triggered by the death of long-serving Labour MP Michael Meacher, is the first major electoral test for party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Labour is defending a 14,738 majority from May's general election.

But it faces a threat from UKIP in what is the first by-election of the current Parliament, with results expected early on Friday morning.

We'll be covering the build-up, the result and all the reaction here.