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Hello, welcome to the All-Out Politics Podcast.

I'm Adam Bolton and joining us today are the Conservative peer

and cepologist Robert Haywood, local elections expert, and also Sky News' election analyst since

1992, recent co-winner of the Royal Television Society Award. Michael Frasher, also here.

Sky News is senior political correspondent Beth Rigby

and the head of Sky Data.

For most of today, we're going to talk about the local elections

taking place in three weeks' time on May the 3rd,

but we can't really ignore the battle of wits preceding a possible retaliation against the use of chemical weapons by forces linked to President Assad in Syria.

And that's where we'll start. Mrs May has called a meeting of her cabinet to discuss the options.

This is what she's been saying publicly.

We've been working with our allies and partners and we're rapidly reaching and understanding of what happened on the ground.

All the indications are that the Syrian regime was responsible and we'll be working with our closest allies to consider how we can ensure that those responsible are held to account and also how we can prevent and deter the humanitarian catastrophe of the use of chemical weapons in the future. The use of chemical weapons cannot go unchallenged.

The crisis has blown up during a parliamentary recess for campaigning and for Easter,

and even Conservative MPs, are divided on whether military action, including Britain,

should go ahead without a parliamentary debate and a vote.

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