John Kerry slams David Cameron for ‘derailing’ US plan to intervene in Syria over chemical weapon attacks

THE outgoing US government fired an ugly departing blow at Britain for the lack of military intervention in Syria - despite President Obama’s own wavering.

Soon to be ex-US Secretary of State John Kerry said that David Cameron’s Commons defeat in 2013 derailed US plans to go to war.

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The American President said he would bomb the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if he used chemical weapons.

But he did not follow through on his promise when the evil tyrant used sarin gas on children.

Despite Mr Obama saying chemical weapons were his “red line”, John Kerry used his final press conference to blame Britain instead.

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“Now, we were marching towards that time when, lo and behold … Prime Minister David Cameron went to the parliament … and he sought a vote for approval for him to join in the action that we were going to engage in.

“And guess what, the parliament voted no, they shot him down.”

Parliament voted 285-272 against the strikes in pivotal moment in August 2013.

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Mr Kerry said on Thursday that after the British vote the US President felt he had no choice but to secure a similar approval from the US Congress.

“The President decided that he needed to go to Congress because of what had happened in Great Britain,” Mr Kerry said.

In the end the US did not launch any strikes, severely damaging Mr Obama’s credibility on the international stage.