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and what it is reasonable for us to deduce from it, in addition to the conversations privately that so, at a little before eight o clock this evening, the prime minister held a conference call, a briefing for his cabinet, which you would expect prior to uk military action if time were to allow that. in addition to that, we saw the shadow defence secretary for labour, john healey, and the speaker of the commons, the house of commons, sir lindsay hoyle, arriving at 70 whitehalljust down the road from here. i understand they were briefed by senior government officials and sir keir starmer, the labour leader, also joined those conversations remotely. now a government, the uk government by convention can act militarily without wider consultation. but where possible, the convention is to speak to senior figures like the leader of the opposition and the speaker of the house of commons.