Dennis Skinner has warned of the perils of Britain intervening in the Syrian civil war, arguing that that situation is "crazy".

The veteran Labour left-winger accused Britain's allies Turkey of aiding Isis by shooting down Russian jets, bombing Kurdish forces, and buying oil from the militant group.

“Isn’t it essential in any prelude to a war to be sure of your allies and be sure of your objectives? Isn’t it a fact that Turkey has been buying oil from Isil, they’ve been bombing the Kurds and the Kurds are fighting Isil, they shot down a Russian jet even though Russia wants to fight Isil," he said.

“He has got an objective to get rid of Assad, our Russian ally has got the opposite objective. What a crazy war. Enemies to the right of us, enemies to the left of us – keep out!”

David Cameron responded that he agreed the UK needed to be clear about who its allies were in the conflict.

The MP mades their comments during a debate about the Government's latest line on the Syrian crisis.

The Government wants to intervene but is unsure it would be able to command a majority vote in the House of Commons to back military action.