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Spike's deputy editor Tom Slater. Hello hello. And Sp spike columnist Ella Wheelen.

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Coming up on the show, Boris and Brexit, Jehadi Jack, and an Edinburgh fringe joke about Tourette's. The Prime Minister says the backstop is anti-democratic.

And then of course I want a deal and I think we can get a deal.

Problem seems pretty much as intractable after two days of talk.

Forrest Johnson and President Macron

from the best top Yerandi.

I want to be very clear.

In the month ahead, we will not find a new withdrawal agreement that deviates far from the original.

This week Boris Johnson wrote to the President of the European Council to call on the EU to reopen

Brexit negotiations. Johnson's priority is to

been the Northern Ireland backstop. The backstop is designed to avoid a hard border

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