Jeremy Corbyn is being openly disowned by his own MPs amid accusations that he has sided with President Assad and Vladimir Putin over military intervention in Syria.

On Sunday the Labour leader called for a “war powers act” which would seek to ensure that all planned use of force would have to be signed off by the Commons, to hold all future governments “for what they do in our name.”

He has described airstrikes on Syria as "legally questionable" and refused both to directly blame Assad for the chemical weapon attack in Douma and Russia for the suspected nerve-agent attack in Salisbury.