The cabinet has met and unanimously agreed that we’re off! Pending, of course, a decision from Donald Trump about what exactly the “consequences” for Bashar al-Assad’s latest use of chemical weapons should be and when they will come about. The President has further muddied the waters by tweeting that he “never said” when the attack on Syria would happen, adding that it “could be soon, or not so soon at all”.
Elsewhere, MPs from across the House are calling for them to be given a vote on what comes next, and Jeremy Corbyn has said that Theresa May is “waiting for instructions from Donald Trump” and has called for “an independent, UN-led investigation” of the attack in Syria. His close ally, Diane Abbott, is under fire for refusing to say four times on the Today programme if Labour would ever support any foreign intervention.
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