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Coffee House Shots: have May and Corbyn thought through their Brexit gambles?

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🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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With Katy Balls and James Forsyth.

Presented by Fraser Nelson.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Coffeehouse Shots for Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.

0:06.9

We've had quite a few developments in the last 24 hours, Jeremy Corbyn backing a second referendum,

0:12.0

and Theresa May saying that she will give Parliament a chance to block no deal.

0:17.3

So how does this change the prospects for Brexit?

0:20.5

I'm Fraser Nelson, and I'm joined by Katie Bowles and James Forsyth. So how does this change the prospects for Brexit? I'm Fraser Nelson and I'm joined by Katie Bowles

0:22.8

and James Forsyth. So James, we've just had the cabinet meeting where Theresa May was grilled by

0:30.2

her fellow ministers about what she intends to do. How did it go? Today's cabinet was not a happy

0:36.4

affair. You had Liz Truss having to go at Kamikaze

0:39.3

cabinet ministers aiming that criticism at Amber Rudd, Greg Clark and David Gork. I'm trying,

0:45.1

Andrea Ledson was kind of audibly furious. One secretary of state was making the point to me that this

0:49.7

isn't just people who are kind of ideologically up for no deal Brexit who were making these arguments,

0:55.2

that, you know, this person was saying that they've never seen James Brokenshire as angry as he

0:59.6

was at Cabinet today. But I think the bigger problem for the Tory party is what is it going to do

1:04.8

if May's meaningful vote fails? Because under Theresa May's plan, I set out to Parliament today,

1:10.7

there'd be first be a vote

1:11.8

on no deal and then there'd be a vote on extending Article 50. What's the government position

1:17.9

going to be on those two questions? And when Michael Gove asked Theresa May this at Cabinet,

1:23.4

that there was no answer. I think this is the real problem for the government because

1:26.8

at some point,

1:28.2

you know, is the government, if May's deal fails on March 12th and you have this vote on No Deal on the 13th,

1:35.4

is Theresa May going to say, well, I'm now up for leaving of No Deal and I'm going to whip my government

1:40.0

to support No Deal, in which case all these ministers who she's moved to stop resigning would resign.

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