My question was to dominic sanbroke on the point of saying, i think, not quite verbatim, that we would have stayed wealthy or rich if we'd stayed out. But much of our position as a creditor was based on empire. Would we really have been able to keep an empire if we'd stayout? Thank you. Ke, then the lady in the middle here, stand up. You with your hand ut there. Get a microphone to you, and i'll take the crash of the galleri after you. Ye, go home. Empire going to be lost anyway. Sore. Not worth fighting for, lady donte.
For this week's Sunday Debate, we're dipping back into the archive to 2014, when we gathered a panel of expert historians to debate whether Britain was right to fight in the First World War, a tragedy that laid the foundations for decades of destructive upheaval and violence across Europe. To debate the issue, we invited leading historians Margaret MacMillan, Max Hastings, John Charmley and Dominic Sandbrook to an event hosted by journalist, columnist and national security expert, Edward Lucas.
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