From the Centre for European Reform, this is the CEO podcast.

It is a critical moment.

If we do not act with urgency, we would then severely undermine the liberal order.

Brexit means Brexit, and we're going to make a success of it.

The wind is back in Europe's sales.

We have now a window of opportunity, but it will not stay open forever.

Hello, you're listening to the CER podcast with me, Beth Oppenheim,

and today I'm with John Springford, the CEO's Deputy Director.

And we're going to be talking about everyone's favourite topic at the moment, which is a no-deal Brexit.

Hi, John.

Hey, Beth, how are you?

I'm very well, thank you.

So this week has been a pretty exciting one for British politics, though perhaps not if you're Boris Johnson.

We're recording this on Thursday the 5th of September and this Tuesday MPs voted for a bill which

if it's to pass the Lords would force Boris Johnson to ask the EU for an extension to the UK's

membership, that is if there's no progress on a deal by the 19th of October.

And then Boris Johnson decided to sack 21 Tory MPs for rebelling against him.

And then on Wednesday, the Prime Minister failed to get MPs backing for a German election.

So it's been quite a week for Boris Johnson.

One thing is for certain, which is that no deal is still a possibility. And John has

just written an insight where he predicts how negotiations between the UK and the EU would play out

if we do end up in that nightmare scenario of no deal. But before we get there, John, on Monday,

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