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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Tuesday, the 13th of May.

Coming up, the opposition warns the Prime Minister against backsliding on Brexit in his summit with the EU.

Our position is simple.

There can be no going back.

Also, Thames Water explains just how strapped for cash they've been.

Honestly, it's hair-raising.

And a minister is upfront about the impact of government cuts to international aid.

These are decisions that have consequences in the real world for some of the most vulnerable

people and there's no point me sitting here and pretending that that is not the case.

But first, the Conservatives have called on the government not to row back on Brexit

at the UK-EU summit next Monday.

The opposition demanded that there should, for example, be no youth mobility scheme

and no lockstep with Brussels on trading standards.

But the government said it was committed to agreeing a deal that was in the UK's national interest.

The Conservatives had called a debate on the EU talk saying they wanted to flush out

the government's real intentions ahead of the summit. The party spokesperson Alex Burkhart

said his party had fought long and hard to get control of the UK's laws, borders and money,

and he didn't trust Sirkeir Stalmer as a negotiator. The government has entered these negotiations with no clear objectives

and with red lines so thin and washed out as they can be quickly discarded.

Labour Stella Creasy was surprised Alex Berkart couldn't support one of the summit's key objectives.

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