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Learn more at city.com slash we are city. City. F.T. Politics, our weekly discussion of UK politics at Westminster and Beyond.

With me, Miranda Green.

Joining me today are George Parker, our political editor, and David Bond, our Brexit editor, to discuss the likelihood of Boris Johnson being able to pull a Brexit

deal out of the bag by October 31st, and James Blitz, our Whitehall editor and Robert Shrimsley

our chief political commentator, will help me read the

ruins on the party conference season.

So George Parker, Amber Rudd resigned from the cabinet last week, citing her ground to resignation that there was

completely inadequate preparation going on to rescue a deal between the UK and

the EU. Since then the government have insisted no there is a lot of work going

on which is it? I can understand Amber Rudd's frustration about this because she's

asked for details of what the government's proposing and none was forthcoming and you speak to people in Brussels who say exactly the same thing that the British government hasn't brought forward concrete proposals.

And it's also true to say that the majority of people in Whitehall are dedicated to the Herculean task of trying to prepare

for the possibility. I think it's no more than that now of a no-deal-X on the 31st of October.

But I think she's not right to say that nothing's going on. I think that Boris Johnson has found

himself in this predicament this week where an election has been taken off the table, effectively

an early election, and no-deal exit doing a lot harder. And I think he is now determined to get a deal and there's a lot of

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