David Cameron indirectly called around 20 million Britons 'terrorist sympathisers'

David Cameron told Conservative MPs to vote for air strikes in Syria last night, calling those opposed to military intervention “a bunch of terrorist sympathisers”.

The prime minister told a meeting of the 1922 committee, prior to a House of Commons debate and vote on military intervention in Syria against Isis, that they “should not be walking through the lobbies with Jeremy Corbyn and a bunch of terrorist sympathisers”.

A YouGov poll for The Times, conducted between 30 November and 1 December, found that 31 per cent of British adults disapprove of RAF air strikes against Isis in Syria.

Or as David Cameron sees this chart:

Or, given that the poll is statistically representative, we can assume that David Cameron just labelled roughly 20 million people in the UK as terrorist sympathisers.

There is obviously a difference between approving of an action and supporting an action. There are very few people who want to bomb Syria - but we think you get the point about generalisations we're making here.

MPs will debate for ten and a half hours today before a late vote, in which Jeremy Corbyn has given his Labour MPs a free vote.

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