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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots of Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Isva Hardman.

And today we've seen MPs return in their droves to the House of Commons Chamber to debate the situation in Afghanistan.

It's about, it's the end of the virtual parliament. So it's been the first time in over a year that we have seen the Chamber packed like this.

What does that mean for Boris Johnson when he stood up to give his opening statement?

Well, it has been really hard over the past year

in a bit to gauge the mood of the House of Commons

because half of the Commons has been over a dodgy Zoom link.

And today, as you say, was the first time

that we saw the chamber packed again.

And it was very clear that the House of Commons had a mood.

In fact, I'd probably say the House of Commons was in a mood

because MPs were really furious with the way in which the British government

has handled and responded or indeed not responded to the

unfolding events in Afghanistan, but also with the Biden administration and the response of

the US as well. We've seen a number of very powerful and angry speeches already.

Kirstama, I think, probably gave one of the best speeches that he's given so far as

Labour leader.

But then he was swiftly followed by Theresa May, who was almost as critical as the Labour

leader in talking about the failure of politicians in Afghanistan.

And really sounding astounded to the

point of not believing the suggestion that intelligence was so poor that Biden and Boris Johnson

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