Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman,

and this is the Sunday Roundup. Rebel forces in Syria have captured Damascus and Bashar al-Assad has reportedly fled the capital, ending a regime that began in the year 2000.

On Sky News this morning, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Raina told Trevor Phillips she welcomes that news.

Angela Rennar, what can you tell us about the situation in Syria this morning?

Well, the situation looks very serious.

And if Assad regime has fallen, then I welcome that news.

But what we need to see is a political resolution in line with the UN resolutions.

And we need to see civilians and infrastructure protected.

Far too many people have lost their lives.

We need stability in that region.

I'm interesting what you said about welcoming news,

but before we do that, before I ask you about that,

what do we know about British citizens in there, the number, their safety,

anything that we should know about?

Well, the Foreign Secretary and obviously our Foreign Office are working.

You'll have heard last week the Foreign Secretary was very clear about UK civilians leaving Syria.

We've had a plan to ensure that people were evacuated ahead of what's happened over the weekend,

and we continue to support our UK nationals.

Trevor Phillips also asked Shadow Foreign Secretary Pretty Patel about Syria and the wider implications

for the region. Of course, there's a set of wider implications for the region.

How do you read it? Stronger Turkey, maybe Russian withdrawal, who knows from Iran? What's your take?

I think first of all, there's clearly an element of, you know, the Turkish footprint is relevant

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