BOLTON’s Labour MPs believe the only way to defeat the murderous terror group ISIS is to send huge numbers of troops to fight them on the ground.

Both Yasmin Qureshi and David Crausby feel the government’s plan for airstrikes alone in Syria will not bring the death cult to its knees.

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he will not back Prime Minister David Cameron’s plan for airstrikes, but is facing a potential revolt from his shadow cabinet on the issue.

Bolton South East MP Yasmin Qureshi has just returned from a trip to the Middle East with the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Select Committee. She went to Cairo, Oman and the recently bombed city of Beirut in a bid to find out more about ISIS and how to defeat them.

She said she was not prepared to give a definitive decision on the UK’s proposed military plans until she has liaised with colleagues who visited other countries but insisted that ISIS could only be defeated with “boots on the ground.”

She said: “If you want to get rid of ISIS we are talking about 20,000 or 30,000 troops going in, coupled with ferocious firepower.

“A few airstrikes here and there will have no impact — they will just regroup and come back, so I don’t think the Prime Minister has made enough concrete points for that.”

Mr Crausby, who represents Bolton North East, agreed that armed forces should be deployed on the ground in Syria — but only if it is made up of a “major multi-national force.”

He said: “I am not convinced that air strikes alone will be successful — I think we do need boots on the ground.

“I hear talk about a major multi-national force but I just can’t see it happening.

“The reality is the only countries that will be prepared to go in are Britain and America and perhaps Russia and France to some extent.

He added: “If you just do airstrikes, the likelihood is you just kill more civilians and turn even more people towards ISIS — this is not something you should even dream about doing by half.”

Mr Crausby said the fact he agreed with Mr Corbyn on this particular issue did not change his opinion of his leadership qualities.

He said: “I do agree with Jeremy Corbyn on this — the law of averages dictates that I am bound to agree with him on some things, but I still don’t think he is the man to lead the party.”

Conservative MP for Bolton West, Chris Green, was unavailable for comment.