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🗓️ 3 December 2018
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With James Forsyth and Katy Balls.
Presented by Isabel Hardman.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. |
0:07.6 | I'm Isabel Hardman and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Katie Balls. |
0:12.2 | So it's Monday. We've had a weekend of news about who does and doesn't support the Brexit deal. |
0:18.4 | Katie, who in the cabinet is currently supporting it? |
0:21.7 | Well, the most vocal over the weekend was Michael Gove, who not only penned an article for |
0:27.2 | the Daily Mail, the Saturday edition, and he gave an interview, but it also went on the |
0:32.9 | Andrew Marr show and sat on the sofa. Now, for those who are keen watches of everything |
0:37.3 | in Westminster, |
0:38.1 | remember that there was a so-called number 10 grid that leaked a few weeks ago, which appeared |
0:44.3 | to show how they planned to promote this deal. Now, figures in number 10, quick to denounce it |
0:48.7 | as a fake grid, because obviously they're a lot of fun to make up. But in it, there was this idea that they would try and get Michael Gove to sell the deal. |
0:57.8 | That has been a longer process than I think some had thought, |
1:01.3 | because we know that he almost resigned over the deal. |
1:03.6 | He decided to stay in cabinet. |
1:05.3 | He refused the role of Brexit secretary because he didn't think it was something he could properly get behind. |
1:09.4 | But it was interesting over the weekend, seeing how he thinks he can sell it, which is basically say there are lots of things that I feel |
1:15.4 | uncomfortable about in this deal, specifically around the backstop. But what gives me comfort |
1:21.0 | is I think the backstop will also make Brussels uncomfortable. Will that have cut through? Notably, |
1:26.7 | Penny Maudent, the International |
1:28.7 | Development Secretary, has still not said she backed the deal. In fact, you had quite strange |
1:34.2 | scenes over the weekend where it was clarified that she does support Theresa May personally, |
1:39.7 | but she hasn't yet said she supports government policy. James, are we any more likely to see that vote next |
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