For Rishi Sunak tonight, a landmark moment of his premiership, a landmark moment in any prime minister's tenure in office: the decision to commit the UK to military action.
The government has the prerogative to do this without wider political consultation. But in this instance, ministers concluded there was sufficient time to brief senior Labour figures and the Speaker of the House of Commons before any strikes began.
This is more than a courtesy: ministers are aware of the scepticism, in Parliament and beyond, about the wisdom, or lack of it, attached to British military operations over recent decades. We can expect a statement and a debate in the Commons in the coming days, with the government pressed to elaborate on what it hopes to achieve, by when and at what cost.
This moment has looked increasingly likely: a military response to match the rhetoric threatening just that. And what next, diplomatically, geopolitically, militarily and economically?
There are risks associated with action. And risks associated with doing nothing. The risk of a wider conflict in the Middle East? A further shrivelling of shipping traffic through the Red Sea, a vital artery of the world economy? And all this after the twin global shocks of the war in Ukraine and the Covid pandemic.
More uncertainty beckons, unknown consequences abound.
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