Hello and welcome back to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's political podcast.

I'm Nora Prendergast and I'm today joined by Henry Neumann, Director of Open Europe and Katie Balls.

So Katie Parliament's back next week and the Prime Minister is already under quite a bit of pressure over her deal.

Is she trying to get some concessions again?

As far as I know, she is

trying, she has been trying at some telephone diplomacy in recent days and trying to basically

speak to EU leaders, appeal to them to get something she can present to MPs. Next week, we expect,

before she tries to put this deal to a vote, something she has delayed once already, and we expect

that the week after next. What she needs is something which is legally binding, which suggests

that the backstop can't go on forever. But so far, and it could just be great secrecy, which we

know, you know, this government is not prone to leaks

or anything. So, so far there's a little sign that she has that. And definitely the music in Brussels

and around EU leaders doesn't seem to be particularly positive either. So she could pull something

at the bag. If she doesn't, though, I do think she is in real trouble again trying to get this

through because it doesn't feel like over Christmas

Embes really calmed down. I mean, we've seen lots of Eurosceptics pick up, you know, the arguments

again quite, with the same intensity as before you've seen Brexiteers say that the numbers haven't

changed. There could have been a few waivers, but I don't think there have

been many yet who have decided to vote for this deal because everyone is waiting to see what she

brings back, because Theresa's ultimately said that she was renegotiating. She used the different

words depending on what suits the move, you know, or getting clearer language. So at the moment,

I don't think she has more votes than she had previously.

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