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On Monday the 23rd of March, the Prime Minister came to the Commons to talk to senior MPs.

The Prime Minister was scheduled to appear in front of the Commons Liaison Committee for 90 minutes

and most of that time was devoted to the war in the Middle East.

But he began closer to home with condemnation of an arson attack in North London

which destroyed four ambulances belonging to a Jewish community charity in the early hours of Monday morning.

Can I start by expressing my disgust

this horrific anti-Semitic attacking Golders Green in the early hours of this morning? The idea

that ambulances could be considered a target is simply horrendous. Kea Stama was in front of the

liaison committee just ahead of a meeting of his

emergency committee known as Cobra, and just a couple of hours after Donald Trump had taken to

social media to say he'd postponed threatened strikes on Iranian power plants after what he

called productive conversations with Iran. Labor MP, Liam Byrne, noted,

Things are moving very quickly and the fog of war remains thick. But even in the midst of that

fog, he wanted to know if the Prime Minister could say how and when the conflict might stop.

Kirstama hoped it would all be over soon. To that end, I welcome the talks reported between the US and Iran. And to be clear with the

committee, we, the UK, were aware that that was happening. And the immediate priority has to be a

swift resolution of the conflict. But that hope didn't quite spill over into optimism.

We mustn't fall in to the sort of false comfort of thinking that there will necessarily be

a quick and early end to this. We have to plan on the basis that may not be. But on the subject

of planning, a Conservative, Sir Bernard Jenkin, wanted to know when MPs would see the defence investment plan

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