Hello, my name's David Rundsenman and this is talking politics. We haven't talked about it for a while, but I think we can't avoid it forever. So this week, back to Brexit.

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We've reconvened the group of people who talked about Brexit on this podcast last time.

I think it was about a month ago.

So we got Wazim Yakub with us, Chris Bickerton and Helen Thompson.

And we kind of left it, I think, last time with the question of where the Labour Party was

positioned. And particularly, as you talked about, the looming possible showdown or at least

break that might emerge in the Labour Party, and particularly in the Corbyn movement between

momentum and young momentum, which was increasingly committed to a second vote, a people's vote,

and the leadership, which is for lots of reasons, many of them good reasons, very nervous about committing itself to a people's

vote. So where do you think we are now post the Labour Conference? I think Labor Conference is

pretty successfully managed event. I mean, apart from anything else, there was not any great

public falling out. But where did they get to in bridging that gap?

So I think it's true to say that the party conference did go ahead without any major ructions on the conference floor.

But it's also the case that some of the tensions that we discussed last month did come out when the composited motion on Brexit was discussed.

And what we saw was a motion cobbled together through a compromise between the trade

unions, party delegates, including people involved in momentum and the leadership.

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