Welcome to F.T. Politics, the Financial Times's weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster.

I'm Sebastian Payne.

In this week's episode we'll be discussing Boris Johnson's latest Brexit Outbird,

the Customs Union and what needs to be done to repair the country's intergenerational contract.

I'm delighted to be joined by our Whitehall editor James Blitz, economics editor

Chris Jules, political correspondent Laura Hughes, and deputy opinion editor Miranda Green.

Thank you all for joining.

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So another week and the Brexit stalemate goes on.

Theresa May's cabinet failed again to meet and decide its preferred option for the UK's

customs relationship with the EU after Brexit.

The Prime Minister's side split up her inner war cabinet into more subcommittees in order to try and

find the compromise that can bring her government with her.

And Boris Johnson, ever diplomatic, helped the situation by calling the Prime Minister's

preferred solution crazy.

James Blitz, so we haven't really moved on that much from the story last week.

We've still got these two options on the table, which is Theresa May's new

Customs Partnership and Maximum Facilitation, which is essentially doing as much

as possible to reduce border infrastructure.

The EU has said neither of these will fly, so we're still negotiating with ourselves, but again another

week is ticked by and still no movement. Yes to state the bleeding obvious time is

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