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Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the News Daysman Podcast. I'm Caroline Crampton standing in for your regular host Helen Lewis.

On this week's episode, I talked to George Eaton and Stephen Bush about the dramatic Syria vote in Parliament and the old and by election,

and then Helen talks to Barbara Speed

and Stephen again about Booker Prize winning author Marlon James and

prejudice in the publishing industry. I'm here with George and Stephen and we're going to talk about the issue of

intervention in Syria. Now the New Statesman's leader is all about this and

the sort of implications for the region and the foreign affairs angle of this. So if

you're interested, go and grab up, highly recommended. But what we're going to

talk about here is specifically the politics of it and

particularly the very dramatic night in Parliament last night when MPs voted.

So George you've been watching all day. Lots and lots of MPs wanted to speak.

There was obviously this big division in the Labour Party that was reflected.

Can you give us a sense of what the atmosphere in the chamber was like?

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