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Cancel any time T's and sees apply. Welcome to the New Statesman podcast. I'm Deputy Editor Helen Lewis and this week

I'll be talking to George Eaton and John Elage about Labour's lead in the polls

and the possibility of intervention in Iraq. Juliet Jake's Ian Stemmmon I look forward to the Premier League season.

And Caroline Crampton and Philip Moore join me to discuss the law of the proms. I'm going by George Eaton, our political editor and John Eledge, editor of Citimetric, to talk about the week in politics.

George, first of all, where are we now with the idea of intervention in Iraq to help the

Azidis? Well it seems increasingly clear that Britain's role will be limited to humanitarian

support and in fact most of the Azides seem to have managed to leave

Mausinja now so it's not even clear that the air drops that were planned for instance

are going to take place.

It seems clear that Parliament isn't going to be recalled. The governments made it clear that that would only take place

were military support being considered.

And unlike the US and France for instance the UK isn't even going to arm the Kurds and

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