Ed Miliband said he does not regret blocking UK intervention in Syria when he was Labour leader after Wes Streeting suggested the UK’s “hesitation” allowed the Assad regime to last for longer. The two senior Cabinet ministers have expressed differing views on the Commons vote on the principle of UK military action in Syria in 2013. The Energy Secretary, who instructed his party to vote against it when he was opposition leader, said he stood by the decision with hindsight. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Assad was a brutal dictator, and it's horrific what he was doing.
00:07We knew at the time he was a brutal dictator.
00:09The question added on the table at the time was, do we bomb him?
00:15Now, I believe that after the war in Iraq, where hundreds of British troops died and thousands were injured,
00:22we should not commit British troops to combat unless we had a clear plan.