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Search AON Global Catastrophe Recap to get started. Hi, I'm Stephen. No Helen this week, but I'm joined by a bumper cast of guest stars. Patrick joins me to talk about the parliamentary arithmetic and a noose joins me to talk about her meeting with the UN Special Investigator into welfare and poverty in the United Kingdom.

I'm joined by our political correspondent Patrick McGuire. Hello.

So we're basically going to have a lot of hostages to Fortune which will all look very, very stupid very soon,

in which basically we're going to do the what is going to happen with these looming votes.

There is, of course, let's see if we can get them all right.

There's, as well as a meaningful vote on the deal.

There's the three Commons vote, well at least three Commons votes,

four Commons votes, first reading, second reading,

Committee stage, and third reading of the withdrawal

agreement and implementation bill.

That obviously has to go through the Lords

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