AKIPRESS.COM - UK Prime Minister David Cameron is recalling Parliament to meet tomorrow for a vote to authorize joining international airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq, reports Bloomberg. 

Cameron, who made the announcement while in New York attending the United Nations General Assembly, has the backing of his Liberal Democrat coalition partners and opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband for airstrikes.

In light of a request for military help from the Iraqi government, the U.K. has “a clear basis in international law for action, and we have a need to act in our own national interest to protect our people and our society,” the prime minister said in his speech to the world body yesterday. “So it is right that Britain should now move to new phase of action.”

“My message today is simple,” he said. “We are facing an evil against which the whole of the world should unite and as ever, in the cause of freedom, democracy and justice, Britain will play its part.”

When Parliament voted on attacking Syria last year, Miliband’s on-the-day decision to vote against action led to Cameron losing the vote. The execution of a British hostage by Islamic State, also known as ISIL, and the threat to execute another Briton, has made the case for military action easier to support.

He said any proposal to join U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria would require a separate parliamentary vote and debate.