The debate was opened with 19% for the motion and 40% against. We are now looking forward to taking question. If you want to make a point, particularly to one member of the panel, to one side, ad, please make that clear,. i will endeavour to direct it in the right direction. There's lots and lots of hands going up, and i want try to make sure everybody gets in.
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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