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Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots,

The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Max Jeffrey and I'm joined today by Katie Balls and Isabel Hardman.

British typhoons struck eight hooty targets last night.

Katie, can you give us the details and also tell us about this row about whether the

Speaker of the House and whether the opposition were informed about these strikes?

Yeah, so this is the second set of strikes which the UK has taken part in alongside

the US. Now the first time around there was that cabinet call in advance and you had a situation where Kiastama and the Shadow Defense

actually John Healy were consulted and the Speaker of the Commons Lindsay Hoyle was

also consulted leaving his drinks in Parliament to go to that briefing. It meant that when the

strikes occurred soon after those conversations it was only really the liberal

Democrats coming out and saying oh Parliament should have had a say, you need to go to Parliament

and all these things because it happened in a period of Parliament was not sitting.

But it was quite a small, I think, scale of unhappiness and there was broad support from the two cross parties.

But I think what's important to note was when all that happened, there was also as a result of that diplomatic unhappiness from the US to the UK

at the fact that news of the strikes leaked in advance to the UK media.

So you had the Times political editor when students of Cabinet call was taking

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