REDDITCH MP Karen Lumley says she is ready to support David Cameron in bombing Syria.

Mrs Lumley told the Advertiser that she was with the Prime Minister over plans for British troops to launch airstrikes on Islamic State (IS) terrorists after he laid out a seven-point plan in the Commons today.

Mr Cameron has urged MPs to back military action, telling them it would be in the UK's "national interest" to attack and not "outsource our security to allies" like the US and France.

The plan includes offering active humanitarian support to Syrian people, "reconstruction" of the country's infrastructure and detailed work with other nations to rid the Middle East of IS.

Mr Cameron, who still faces a battle to win a majority of MPs' support at a vote, also said there would be no British "boots on the ground" and that only the RAF has very specialised, world-leading equipment allies need to counter the threat.

He also said spooks working for security agencies believe Britain is a main IS target for attacks.

Mrs Lumley said: “I am with the Prime Minister when he says that we have to destroy the evil threat that is ISIS - this threat to our freedom and threat to our way of life that we treasure so much.

“However, I also agree that we should not act alone. There has to be a coherent international strategy on IS, using every resource available - military as well as diplomatic, political and humanitarian.

“But at the end of the day ISIL are bombing, raping and torturing their way into the lives of every day, peace-loving people and this cannot be allowed to happen unchallenged."

She added: "I will listen sympathetically to the views of my constituents before any vote takes place, but it is my firm view that sometimes you have to be brave enough to take firm action against such outright evil, which has to be checked and sooner rather than later. I voted for air strikes before and will do so again.”

The Prime Minister will not hold a Commons vote until he is sure of victory after he lost a motion in 2013.

Mr Cameron today said launching UK air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria will "make us safer".

He told MPs the UK was already a target for IS, and the only way to deal with that was to "take action" now.

“That bomb in Paris, that could have been London. If they had their way, it would be London," said Mr Cameron.

"I can't stand here and say we are safe from all these threats. We are not. I can't stand here either and say we will remove the threat through the action that we take.

"But do I stand here with advice behind me that taking action will reduce and degrade that threat over time? Absolutely and I have examined my conscience and that's what it is telling me."

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is being encouraged by many MPs to have a free vote on it, sought assurances the UK would not be dragged into a ground war.

He said there was "no doubt" the "so-called Islamic State group has imposed a reign of terror on millions in Iraq, Syria and Libya" and that it "poses a threat to our own people".

But he added: "The question must now be whether extending the UK bombing from Iraq to Syria is likely to reduce, or increase, that threat and whether it will counter, or spread, the terror campaign Isis is waging in the Middle East."

Mr Corbyn is going to try and form a collective view within his own shadow cabinet.

Mr Cameron today answered questions from 103 MPs during a marathon two hours and 40 minutes as he sought to persuade them to back air strikes.

The Prime Minister said there would not be a vote in the Commons unless there was a majority for action "because we will not hand a publicity coup to ISIL".