This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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One of Jeremy Corbyn’s closest allies and shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, stressed in his recent remarks that MPs should be allowed to use their own judgment on the issue to support airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria or not. His remarks indicated that the Labour leadership is inclined toward allowing a free vote on the issue.
According to John McDonnell, his party is not divided over the issue at all. He pointed out that many Liberal MPs are struggling to get used to the new politics where people could “honestly express their views.” He endorsed the idea of giving Labour MPs a free vote and recalled that it was a “horrendous mistake” that MPs were “whipped and threatened and pushed” into supporting “something many of them did not believe in” during the vote on the Iraq war.
In his remarks, McDonnell stated that “I don’t believe that is acceptable. There are some issues, like going to war that should be above party politics and I think we are moving to a situation where, hopefully, in all parties on issues like this, a moral conscience should be above the whip as well.” It was added that “on certain issues, the ones really above party politics, we have got to have mature politics in our democracy now. This is a matter of conscience. You are sending people out possibly to die. There shouldn’t be any party discipline on matters like this. You should follow your own judgment on what you think is best for the constituency and the country.”
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