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Labour
Earlier predictions that 100 or more Labour MPs would back bombing — the same number as rebelled against Tony Blair to oppose the Iraq war in 2003 — are looking inaccurate.
The whips office estimates that shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn will lead between 30 to 50 Labour hawks into the lobby behind Dave Cameron.
Deputy leader Tom Watson is also expected to be in the group consisting mainly of Blairites like Liz Kendall, Chris Leslie and John Woodcock, but also party grandees such as Alan Johnson and Margaret Beckett.
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
