In the British Conservatives, the nerves are 30 MPs of his own party have David Cameron denied their support for a military intervention in Syria. PM Cameron experienced the greatest humiliation of his three-year tenure.

Three years after taking office puts Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron in the greatest crisis of his tenure. The draft resolution introduced by him for a military operation against the Assad regime has failed a crash Thursday evening in the House.

With 285 to 272 votes, the Parliament rejected an intervention in Syria on principle – because the deputy prime minister refused to followers of Cameron’s Conservative party and the Liberal coalition partner. About 30 Tories voted against the bill to the Cabinet.

During the vote was read out, called a single deputy in the direction of Cameron: “Stand back!” Sir Menzies Campbell, former head of the Liberal Democratic Party, said he could not remember that a British government had ever suffered a defeat in such an important foreign policy issue.

Accordingly, there is anger at Cameron’s allies. Conservative education minister Michael Gove called the behavior of the breakaway party members a shame. His wife Sarah Vine described the Tory rebels via Twitter as “pathetic loser who can not look beyond their own interests.”

The defense confused Saddam and Assad

The conservative “Times” described the vote as a defeat “humiliation for Cameron.” The prime minister and his advisors had completely underestimated how controversial a military attack on Assad factions within the government. Thus, the Cabinet knowingly had run into knives.

Finance Minister George Osborne said on Friday, the result will unleash a debate about what role the UK would continue to play in the world. The country should be clear about whether it wants to continue to play an important international position, Osborne said.

Downing Street tried to downplay the significance of the defeat. A source from government sources told the “Guardian”: “Our rebels make it clear that they support the Prime Minister in matters of business, education and social reforms in Syria Only they simply do not support it..” During the debate, the government had the Labour opposition leader Ed Miliband accused the Assad regime to play into their hands. A reproach, however, fizzled out during the session.

Particularly embarrassing for Cameron’s government is the fact that three of his cabinet members had missed the crucial vote. Two ministers declared later that they had not heard the bell, which called for the election. Minister Ken Clarke said he had made ​​”family reasons” can not vote.

Defence Minister Philip Hammond took the defeat apparently particularly. In a TV interview after the parliamentary session, he brought with each other several times, which would have to be dictator attacked in Syria actually. Twice he demanded that Saddam Hussein had to be prevented from using chemical weapons.

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