KEIGHLEY MP Kris Hopkins said he could not support people taking personal action to go and fight against Islamic State militants.

“ISIL is a terrorist organisation unlike those we have dealt with before,” said Mr Hopkins.

“The brutality is staggering – beheadings, crucifixions, the use of rape as a weapon and the slaughter of children.

“I therefore firmly believe that the UK must play its part in destroying these evil extremists.

“But I cannot support anyone travelling from these shores to put themselves in danger and actively urge people not to do so.”

Meanwhile, Home Secretary Theresa May yesterday insisted no-one from the police or security services ever told her that relocating British terror suspects away from their networks would stop them travelling to Syria.

She defended her decision to scrap relocation powers from measures designed to monitor terror suspects amid Labour claims that the move was a “mistake” that could have led to the likes of “Jihadi John” joining Islamic State in the Middle East.

Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper called for either an independent or parliamentary investigation into whether the policy change made it easier for members of a west London terror group that reportedly counted Mohammed Emwazi in its number to travel to fight abroad.