Hello and welcome to our latest Beyond Brexit podcast. I'm Emily Kahn. I'm afraid I'm out of the country on a festive adventure this time.

So I've asked Anna Wallace, our head of political relations and Michael Moore, Senior Political Advisor, to let you listen in on one of their daily discussions on the latest political developments on Brexit. Let's see what they're chatting about today.

Hello, Mike. How are you?

I'm well.

Yet another extraordinary week in Brexit. We think that they keep getting more and more

extraordinary and yet the bar keeps being raised. Tell me about what you think about what happened last week.

It was.

I mean, extraordinary is a word that is, almost by its nature, overused.

And yet these were definitely out of the ordinary moments.

What other week have we seen in recent political history where the biggest vote of the Parliament was pulled at short notice.

The Prime Minister of the day is challenged in terms of the leadership of her party and therefore

of the country.

And then having survived that, goes to a summit of all the EU leaders to get a variation

on a deal and comes back, if not empty handed, close to it. I mean, it was

an amazing amount to pack into a week. And strangely, we kind of ended up on Friday night

where we'd been on Monday morning. Back where we were, exactly. And that's one thing. I'm talking

to clients last week, you know, there was this sense that all of a sudden lots of

scenarios have moved back on the table and that creates, I think, a business is even more

paralysis. But actually, as you said, I think from Monday to Friday, the advice we're giving

to clients hasn't yet changed, has it?

No, I mean, we have very consistently said to people, really from the outset, you need to take no deal seriously.

When the politics is as messy as this, then it's particularly relevant. No deal is a very

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