Well, I don't know, Ian, but it strikes me that it's probably at least 24 hours since we've had a speech on Brexit.

There have been quite a lot this week, haven't they?

You wait months for a decent statement on Brexit and then five come along up once and you can pay your money and take your

choice.

It is interesting now that, well, you've got a clear divide between the two parties on Brexit

because up until now, Jeremy Corbyn has almost, I think, really gone along with government

policy and there wasn't much between them.

Kea Starmo would keep trying to make the be more of a dividing line,

but Jeremy Corbyn would always row back and he would say, no, we've got to stay out of the single

market, we've got to stay out of the Customs Union. And Barry Gardner, the Shadow International

Trade Secretary, who we talked about last week, whispering Barry Gardner,

he's had a bit of a traumatic week, I think,

because he's basically had to eat humble pie

and everything he's ever said before

about how terrible a customs union would be for Britain.

So Jeremy Corby made the speech on Monday

and said they would want to stay in a form of customs union.

Now, I think this was a really skillful

piece of political positioning because what they've done is appeal to the remainery type vote

by saying that in the full knowledge that what they want to negotiate, they know they can never

achieve because there is no way that the EU is ever going to agree to Britain having a seat at the table in trade talks

because it would give us a more beneficial position than we have now.

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