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Welcome to F.T. Politics, a weekly podcast on British politics from the Financial Times.

I'm Sebastian Payne, digital comment editor, and this week we'll be looking

at the latest developments in the EU referendum, including whether Boris Johnson and Michael

Gov are right about sovereignty and why the Labour Party has been absent from the debate so far.

To do this, I'm delighted to be joined by our chief political commentator Philip Stevens,

Andrew Jimson, who's a contributing editor of the Conservative home and biographer of Boris Johnson

and Aisha Herzika who is a former special advisor to Harriet Harmon and now a

political commentator too. Thank you all for joining. So we'll begin by returning once again to the EU referendum

and whether Brexit could lead to more sovereignty for Britain.

Michael Gove and Boris Johnson seem to think so but David Cameron does not.

So Philip I'm going to begin because you've tackled this issue head on your column this week

and you think Boris is wrong on sovereignty so if we leave the EU

Britain will not suddenly become sovereign once again. Why? Well sovereignty is an elusive

concept and one has to I think there's a purest view of sovereignty which says

sovereignty is the capacity for self-government to make all one's own decisions.

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