28/11/2015 BBC Weekend News

Labour MPs can expect telephone calls from senior Conservatives

this weekend to try to gain their support for airstrikes in Syria.

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who says the Government has failed

to make a convincing case for military action, is asking

It comes as thousands of people are expected

across the country to oppose UK involvement in air strikes.

Will you allow a free vote on Serie A? He is the leader of a party

divided, his Shadow Cabinet split over whether they should back

British air strikes in Syria. Many Labour MPs will be called by senior

Government figures. The Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, Michael

Fallon and Sir Mark Lyall Grant are among those who will contact

opposition members to press the case for air strikes in Syria. Labour's

leader has e-mailed the party's members opposing military action, he

has asked them for their opinions by the start of next week. I think my

colleagues should not be taken in by us becoming safe as a result of air

strikes and this will go away. It will not happen. It will not solve

the problem. Anti-war campaigners protesting at Downing Street this

lunchtime to oppose a air strikes. Many of these will be Labour Party

supporters, but Jeremy Corbyn's opponents say he should focus not on

his party but on the public. You have got a focus on party members,

not on the public. The public show that they would like air strikes in

Syria to attack Isis, they accept the risks involved, but they need

action, because they can see the need to crush Isis and show

solidarity with France. None of that is coming through from the

leadership of the party. French jets are already launching attacks over

Syria. Their president last night called on British MPs to back David

Cameron and now the RAF to join them. Whoever wins the argument

within the Labour Party could well decide whether that eventually

happens. Downing Street says David Cameron is

taking allegations of bullying within the Conservative

Party's youth wing very seriously. It follows the apparent suicide

of a 21-year-old activist in September, who had claimed he was

bullied by a party youth organiser. An internal investigation is being

carried out by the However,

the father of Elliot Johnson wants Three people, including a police

officer, have died in a gun attack at a birth-control clinic in the

American city of Colorado Springs. The gunman was involved

in a standoff with police for five hours, with a number

of people trapped in the building The Queen ends a three-day

state visit to Malta today. At a banquet for leaders of

Commonwealth countries last night the Queen joked she was made to feel

old by the new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after he

spoke of her past visits to Canada. It would not be an international

summit without a banquet, and it would not be a Commonwealth Bank

without the Queen, or quite possibly this will be the last conference she

will attend. She will not travel to distant destinations in coming

years. Looking around at the ever more youthful leadership inspired

this right observation. Thank you, Prime Minister of Canada, for making

me feel so old! There have been broad hints here that the Prince of

Wales has been positioned to take on the role of head of the

Commonwealth, and only if the Commonwealth invites him. Charles

has a passionate commitment to the environment, one of the big issues

at this conference. He has urged the Commonwealth to take a stand, as has

the President of France, who will host the UN climate change

conference in Paris. In their working sessions, Commonwealth

leaders have discussed extremism and how this grouping of nations,

representing nearly a third of the world's population, can do more to

combat it. One other subject to David Cameron, the battle against

corruption, he is expected to tell Commonwealth leaders that the

international committee has ignored corruption for too long. , roughly

leaders have continued their discussions in informal sessions.

For the Queen, it has been a day of nostalgia, revisiting some of the

site she will have known when she lived here with her husband in the

early 1950s. It's doubles day in the Davis Cup

final today between Great Britain Andy Murray and his brother Jamie

are hoping to take the team 2-1 up ahead of tomorrow's

decisive singles matches. Great Britain haven't won

the cup since 1936. It is a big day. It is a huge day.

You say 1936, written had never been in a final since 1978, we are

reduced to stories of Britain being in the doldrums, but they could make

a piece of history tomorrow. The doubles match you talk about today,

the brothers linking up, could be the decisive match, because that

would put them 2-1 up after yesterday finished at 1-1. Andy

Murray will be expected to win his singles match tomorrow and give

Britain the cup. It is a scarcely believable for. What a story, the

brothers coming together, they experienced highs and lows on and

off the court, but now uniting for their crowning family glory. It is a

wonderful story, but they face a Belgian side who will fight tooth

and nail in front of their home crowd and on a surface of their

choosing, the clay. It should be quite an atmosphere today, and it

wraps up tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

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