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I'm Sebastian Payne and in this week's episode

we'll be discussing another big week in Brexit news plus the quiet revival of the

Liberal Democrats. I'm delighted to be joined by George Parker, our political editor, Chief Political Commentator Philip

Stevens, Political Correspondent Henry Mance, and Political Commentator Miranda Green.

So let's kick off with Brexit for a change.

It's been another news-packed week with lots of small developments but little actual progress

on the government's position.

On Tuesday the House of Commons began debating the slender Article 50 bill and on Wednesday 498 MPs backed the bill.

Then on Thursday the infamous Brexit Whitet Paper outlining the government's strategy was published which contains amongst typos and errors little new detail.

So George Parker it's sort of been an odd week in Brexit news worth trundling

towards the point at which Article 50 will be triggered but in terms of the House of Commons

there wasn't any major shift there in opinion from the vote in December and the

white paper which will come on to in a moment didn't really tell us anything new?

Yes that doesn't set up the discussion very exciting

but I think I would disagree actually just to sort of inject a

notion of the future. I think the vote on Wednesday was actually

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