Bombing Syria 'a recruiting sergeant' for IS
Extending UK airstrikes to so-called Islamic State in Syria will make the group βmore determined to come here and kill usβ according to Ken Livingstone, co-chairman of Labour's Defence Policy Review.
As parliament prepares to vote on the air strikes, the former Mayor of London told the Today programme that "bombing doesn't actually win you a warβ and that "boots on the ground" from a broad coalition of UN forces was required to defeat IS.
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