The blast. We can go to Beirut And Anna foster. We were speaking to our colleague who was saying the news has been reported on iranians media. That is right. It is an important moment. What i think will be a moment when you see a collective outpouring of grief in southern suburbs of beirut and the south of the country and the south of the Country And Bekaa valley is when we have the funeral. I have no indication when it will happen. It will happen reasonably quickly because these things always do. Perhaps tomorrow. That will be a big moment. If you look back to just over a week ago when we had the attacks with pagers and walkie talkies. People gathered at funerals and a second wave of attacks came then so when people go to a funeral they will remember what happened a week ago and be nervous. If you support hezbollah in the stronghold areas, they will want to be part of their collective grieving process. That is something that i think well have a real impact on the streets of beirut and
shortly after that cabinet call, we saw in person, arriving on foot, john healey, the shadow defence secretary labour and also sir lindsay hoyle, the leader of the commons, arriving in 70 whitehall, which is the cabinet office that adjoins downing street and that the connecting corridors all lead through as if it is effectively one building. we also saw the foreign secretary, lord cameron, going into downing street. the expectation in situations like this, when time allows comets that senior opposition figures such as keir starmer, who we think has probablyjoined a call to be briefed as well, as well as the defence secretary and the house of commons speaker, would be briefed, where time to allow and it would appear in this instance that there is time because, as we understand it, no military strikes have happened as yet. the uk government always has the capacity to respond without consulting either the opposition or wider parliament, but convention would normally point in the