Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. I'm John Connolly,

and I'm joined today by James Fusithe and Isabel Hardman. Now, Jeremy Corbyn has arranged a meeting today

with several opposition MPs to discuss all tactics available to prevent a no-deal Brexit.

James, is this a sign that the anti-no-deal

faction in Parliament are finally getting their act together? No, because you see even now

the differences in their approach, which is Jeremy Corbyn still wants a vote of no confidence

in Boris Johnson, followed by a new government, which would be, in his view, led by him.

At the same time, the Liberal Democrats led by Jay Swinson,

are quite clear that they think some kind of law to block no deal is a better option,

or some kind of government of inverted commas national unity led by some figure,

less divisive they say than Jeremy Corbyn.

I mean, this is the problem, which is, if say than Jeremy Corbyn. I mean, this is the problem,

which is, if you're Jeremy Corbyn, why would you want to back a government led by anybody else?

Because that causes you, I think, three problems fundamentally. One, if you pick any other

Labour figure, you're effectively suggesting they might be a more effective Prime Minister than they are,

which would weaken his position within his own party. If you were to opt for a Tory, say Ken Clark, you'd be

undermining your entire argument against kind of Tory austerity, the kind of moral case that Jeremy

Corbyn has been seeking to make for his entire leadership. And thirdly, you're creating a precedent.

And this I think is particularly

important because I think any government of national unity would merely, even its advocates,

argue, would only be a temporary thing. And there would then be a general election. That general

election may very well return quite a messy result. And if you're Jeremy Corbyn, you don't want

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