Crispin Blunt: the UK should also bomb al-Nusra Front in Syria

Crispin Blunt MP, chair of the Foreign Affairs select committee, raised the point that the UN security council motion unanimously agreed upon to fight IS also referred to al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria.

"Limiting the targeting to ISIL and excluding al-Nusra and any future terrorist groups that will be listed by the UN as envisaged by the UN security council resolution 2249 is a restriction I do not understand.

"If armed groups put themselves beyond recall in the judgement of both the international Syrian support group and the UN security council, then our forces should be required to act within the law."