This is an entry from: LIVE BLOG: British MPs vote on launching air strikes in Syria
Mhairi Black shares Tony Benn speech in anti-war message
2 December 2015 12:33 GMT
The youngest MP in parliament 21-year-old Mhairi Black has come out against the air strikes, in line with the rest of the Scottish National Party.
In a post on Facebook, Black shared a speech by the late Labour MP Tony Benn from a debate on the decision to launch the first Gulf war in 1990.
Benn said: “Every member of parliament tonight who votes for the government motion will be consciously and deliberately accepting the responsibility for the deaths of innocent people if the war begins as I fear it will.”
A younger Jeremy Corbyn, then a Labour MP and now the party leader, can be seen in the background of the video.