The Labour leader will also press Cameron to delay the vote until Labour's concerns about the justification for the bombing are addressed, as part of a deal he has thrashed out with the deputy leader, Tom Watson, and other senior members of the shadow cabinet over the weekend.
The only defensible answer is "Right now!" Candidates who counsel further delay should be pressed to explain why.
Britain also pressed the Palestinians to delay the vote until after the Israeli general election, in January, fearing that Netanyahu's response may be made stronger by electoral considerations.
China, however, will almost certainly press the United States to delay or rethink its plans.
Ambrose Dudley received the post of Master of the Ordnance, though he pressed his influential brother to delay the appointment somewhat, so that he could not be held accountable for his predecessor's embezzlement of funds.
Although details remain murky, the officials suggested that Pakistan's government leaned on influential politicians in Lahore — including the family of Nawaz Sharif, the leader of the main opposition party — to press the high court to delay ruling on the Davis case.
He wrote: "I believe this approach borders on a conspiracy to delay press regulation.
Writing in the Sunday Mirror, the former deputy prime minister said the decision for a Privy Council committee chaired by Nick Clegg to examine the newspaper industry's alternative proposals to the Leveson Report, before looking at a Royal Charter put forward by Parliament, "borders on a conspiracy to delay press regulation".
Prescott explains in his letter that, "having examined all the details, including legal advice, I am of the view that a combination of government ministers and press barons have combined to delay the implementation of parliament's royal charter, by procrastination and half-truths".
