Hi everyone, this is Steve Richards with just a quick reminder if it's okay with all of you

that rock and roll politics is live this week, live at King's Place on Monday night,

and stream live too around the world.

And we will have so much to cram in in our evening together.

The theme this time, if it's okay with you, is this.

The return of Brexit. Yeah. Brexit and its consequences, my favourite word in British politics,

are beginning to already produce all kinds of weird

political contortions. And I think Johnson's bizarre speech to the Conservative Conference

and the arguments deployed about why the shortages of petrol and food and staff for hotels and restaurants and social care

are a form of triumph, this is his argument, can only be explained by us all returning to Brexit

and then turning to Northern Ireland and there's old Frosty.

Nobody takes them all on. Nobody wins with Frosty. There he is Frosty, threatening to withdraw from the

whole Northern Ireland protocol, triggering the article with great machismo, as he threatens to.

Yeah, it's all beginning to have consequences, and we need to explore them to make sense of British

politics. And this being the end of the party conference season, has it changed much?

Kirstama went into it with great hopes that it would.

Has it?

Has he made more of an impact?

Did he make the most of his time at the centre of the political stage?

Oh yeah, and then there will be a prediction from all of us, those watching on the live stream

and in the hall, which will prove to be wholly wrong in the months to come, and questions

from the streamed audience, and of course from within the hall constantly throughout the evening.

...