Welcome to F.T. Politics, the Financial Times's podcast on British politics.

I'm Sebastian Payne and yes summer is over, autumn is approaching and we have proper

political news once again so we're back to our regular format in this week's

episode we're going to be looking at the latest Brexit shenanigans in Brussels and whether Theresa May is really going to lead

the Conservatives into the next general election.

I'm delighted to be joined down the line from Brussels by Alex Barker, who's our Brussels

Bureau Chief, White or Editor James Blitz,

plus Isabel Hardman, who's assistant editor of The Spectator magazine.

Thank you all for joining.

The third round of Brexit negotiations took place this week with David Davis representing the British

side and Michelle Barney speaking up on behalf of the EU. The talks took place as before behind

closed doors so what actually happened remains private.

But what we did see was a slightly bizarre press conference on Thursday

which offered an insight into where we are at.

Mr Davis said the concrete progress had been made on the key issues, why Monsieur Barney said that

no progress had been made on the key issues, and once again we are back to that issue of money

and how much the UK should pay as part of a divorce settlement and the sequencing of the talks and should we be talking about the future?

So Alex Barker, can you kick us off by giving us the side from Brussels on how this week went?

Was it a good week, a bad week or a middling one for the Brexit

talks? Well, Michel Barnier made it pretty clear, they didn't see any significant progress on the biggest

questions, there were advances on a few technical areas,

a bit on pending cases at the ECJ, a bit on citizen rights, absolutely nothing on the money. And the main part I think you saw the two

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