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Hello and welcome to the New European Podcast. I'm Richard Porre and I'm joined by Steve Anglesey.

Hello. Later on we're going to be talking to Jerry Scott about Labour's Brexit difficulties and

whether they can try and square that circle.

And we will of course be crowning our Brexiteer of the week.

But first Steve, some news from the Tories and Amber Rudd writing in the, is talking about an assessment of migration.

What's your take on this?

Well, it's tempting, isn't it, to see headlines like this and think,

one, the government are making things up as they go along, two, this government is a complete shambles.

And while both of those things are true, I think, you know, as Remainers, we need to welcome

stuff like this.

It would be easy to poke fun at Amber Rudd.

You know, what she said has even been contradicted already, hasn't it, but slightly

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