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Theresa May seriously considered sending 1,000 UK troops into Syria last December.

Came in frantic few days after Trump suddenly announced US troop withdrawal just before Christmas.

Our @Telegraph piece here: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
May huddled with her closest advisers in No 10.

She feared not acting would leave Britain at risk from future Isil attacks.

But doubts over US support and defeat in the Commons proved insurmountable.

A 1,200 word read on how it all played out here: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
The key players in the drama.
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Ben Riley-Smith
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Clear blue sky in Washington today for the impeachment vote. Moon still just about visible.
Shots from inside Congress. House begins to debate the two articles of impeachment in 30 mins. Vote expected at 3pm at the earliest (8pm UK)
It’s one day short of exactly 21 years since this happened - Bill Clinton’s impeachment. A strange echo with the man whose wife Trump beat to win power in the first place.

(That too occurred when the president’s political opponents held the House)

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I urge everyone to read this absolutely furious letter Trump’s just sent Pelosi. Excoriating. Hyperbolic. Self-justificatory. It will stand as one of the most remarkable documents in this historic impeachment push.

P1 ...
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“You view democracy as your enemy!”
P3

“Your party simply cannot compete with our record...”
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In one of those strange symmetries, the day Boris’s fate is decided is when Trump’s impeachment will be formally backed by the House Judiciary Committee.
They also met for one of the first times as world leaders in New York on the same day the impeachment inquiry was launched and the Supreme Court ruled prorogation was unlawful.
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