• Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (right) stands for the national anthem during a memorial service for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain at St. Paul's Cathedral in London on Tuesday. The Battle of Britain was an aerial battle in World War II between Allied forces and the German Luftwaffe in the late summer and early autumn of 1940. | AP
    Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (right) stands for the national anthem during a memorial service for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain at St. Paul's Cathedral in London on Tuesday. The Battle of Britain was an aerial battle in World War II between Allied forces and the German Luftwaffe in the late summer and early autumn of 1940. | AP

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LONDON – No fan of Britain’s “special relationship” with the United States, the new left-wing leader of the country’s main opposition party is against Prime Minister David Cameron’s drive to join Washington’s airstrikes on Syria.

But Jeremy Corbyn’s position is out of step with some in his Labour Party, and Cameron will hope to poach opposition members if he asks parliament to authorize the extension of Britain’s military action against the Islamic State group (IS) to Syria from Iraq.

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