Theresa May is holding an emergency Cabinet meeting today on how to respond to the latest chemical weapons attack in Syria. Already sources are briefing that the Prime Minister is prepared to take military action without a vote in Parliament, which has naturally enraged a number of parliamentarians. Jeremy Corbyn has said that ‘parliament should always be given a say on military action’, and the SNP have said that a failure to do so would be a ‘scandal’. Whether or not it gets a vote, Parliament is very poor when it comes to scrutinising military action and foreign policy. This isn’t just because many MPs shy away from foreign policy, preferring to concentrate on domestic issues and constituency problems instead.

Source: Libya Today April 12, 2018 09:33 UTC