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avante west coast feel good travel. Welcome to F.T. politics, a weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster from the Financial Times.

I'm Sebastian Payne. In this week's episode, we'll be digging into the rumbling signs of a Brexit breakthrough and we'll be discussing Aaron Banks and the probes by the I.

I see on the NCA into his conduct during the lead campaign.

I'm delighted to be joined as ever by George Parker, our political editor, Brussels Bureau Chief Alex Barker, Deputy

Piener to Miranda Green, Chief Political Correspondent Jim Picard, and Public Policy

Correspondent Robert Wright.

And apologies for the quality of the line Alex is on his mobile in Brussels. Thank you all for joining and if you like

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Saturday morning. So it's coming home. The Brexit deal finally seems to be arriving.

That was the chant going throughout Westminster this week as the withdrawal talks between the UK

and the EU entered their final stages.

A deal is all but done minus a few crucial little bits on the Irish backstop.

But the question now is when and how it is going to land.

Will Theresa may get it through her cabinet?

When will the summit be?

And of course, will it even fly in the House of Commons?

So George Park, before we begin, thank you very much for standing in last week

when I had about food poisoning and had to run off home after we were about to record this

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