Cameron accused of ignoring own MPs in rush to war with Assad

‘Impatient to launch airstrikes against Syrian regime targets in 2013, former Prime Minister David Cameron brushed aside the concerns of his own Conservative MPs to make the case for war, according to one senior Tory MP.
Parliament voted down Cameron’s plan to bomb forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, but later approved airstrikes against jihadist targets in December 2015.
Iain Duncan Smith, then-work and pensions secretary, told the Mirror there had been a “genuine undercurrent of unease” among cabinet ministers, but that major meetings were generally “stitched up” beforehand in line with Cameron’s hasty leadership style.’
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