David Cameron's hopes of building a consensus behind military action against Islamic State (IS) in Syria suffered a blow after the Foreign Affairs Committee said the Prime Minister had failed to justify air strikes.
The Prime Minister made his case for military action in a response to a critical report from the FAC, setting out what he claimed was a "comprehensive" approach to the crisis in Syria.
The committee's Tory chairman Crispin Blunt had already given his personal view that Mr Cameron had gone far enough and indicated that he would support military action.
But in a meeting on the eve of the Commons vote on military action, the committee voted by four to three in favour of a motion that the PM "has not adequately addressed concerns".
Tories John Baron and Andrew Rosindell, Labour's Yasmin Qureshi and Stephen Gethins of the Scottish Nationalist Party were those opposing the case for air strikes.
Conservatives Adam Holloway, Daniel Kawczynski and Nadhim Zahawi backed the PM.
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