tonight bringing us the context are amanda renteria, hillary clinton s former national political director and tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent. exactly 20 years ago today, us forces, with the uk and other allies, invaded iraq. the stated aim to rid the country s dictator saddam hussein of his weapons of mass destruction weapons that in the end were never found. it was part of the us s war on terror , started by president george w bush after the terrorist attacks of september 11th, 2001. let s remind ourselves those first moments of the war. on this day in 2003, the first raids were on the capital baghdad it was called shock and awe . it took the us just over a month to defeat iraqi forces and saddam hussain s regime collapsed. president bush declared iraq to be free. but rather than an end to conflict, it was the beginning of many years of bloodshed for iraq and the wider region. the failure to plan for the aftermath of the invasion led, in part, t
For it, as tom pointed out that shouldn t make too much difference to the uk parliament. the tories have the support of the labour party so it should go through anyway. we have just got a line through for our corresponded from the bristol side of things, saying that the brexit deal, the eu states are expected to endorse this revised brexit deal for northern ireland tomorrow morning. that is 1145 am in brussels time. just being sent through to us here from jessica parker. the windsor framework will be considered by ministers at the general affairs council in brussels as part of the formalities ahead of the eu uk joint committee on friday. so slightly technical language there. a little bit of legal ease. but that was the thrust of it. a quick update there from our corresponded jessica