Hello and welcome to a special edition of the spiked podcast.

It's been an extraordinary week in British politics with MPs voting to block no-deal Brexit

and to block an election.

We've had defections and sackings and the government losing its majority.

Joining me to discuss all this and more we have Spikes editor Brendan O'Neill.

Hello.

Spikes Deputy Editor Tom Slater, hello hello and spike columnist Ella Wheeling.

Hi.

I don't want an election you don't want an election.

Have you lost control, Prime Minister?

The eyes to the right, 328, the nose to the left, 301.

There must now be an election.

No deal is opposed by every business group and by this house.

sovereignty in this house comes from the British people.

Tom, let's go back to the beginning of the week. MPs vote to take

control of parliamentary business and they use this to put forward the Ben

Bill, a bill that aims to block a no-deal Brexit.

Can you walk a bit through that?

No, it's definitely worth recapping because so much has happened since the beginning of this week.

And I think this week will probably go down as the point in which Boris is kind of bluster in the first few weeks while Parliament was away kind of collided with the

reality at least on some level. So this week started as you said with this vote on Tuesday to take

control of the order paper the remain alliance doing this wheeze that they with this

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