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Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on The Times I'm Matt Jorley back

from the summer break and out of the studio this week out of the country even I'm in

Brussels where the third round of Brexit talks have just wound up.

I'm in the Belémont building, the sprawling vast slightly too trendy for its own good home of the European Commission and

I'm joined by Times political reporter and Brexit expert Henry Zeffman. I've said from the beginning of this process some parts of this we turbulent hard difficult

and of course we will see that because there are differences of you which have to be resolved.

But both sides, and this is very apparent this week, both teams, aim to be constructive, aim to get an outcome which is in the benefit of both the European Union and the United Kingdom.

The single market, the EU capacity to regulate, to supervise, to enforce our laws must not and will not be

undermined by Brexit.

by Brexit.

We're sitting Henry on some slightly trendy office chairs underneath a glass ceiling here at the Blaymont Building. A rare bit of daylight

because as far as I can tell having been in Brussels a couple of days, everything seems to take

place in windowless couple of days. Everything seems to take place in

windowless stuffy rooms with people talking very technically but not a lot of

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