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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm John Connolly and I'm joined today by Fraser Nelson and Katie Balls.

Now, last night at one hour to midnight, Big Ben

may not have bonged as many people hoped, but Britain did finally at long last leave the European

Union, certainly a historic moment. And to mark the occasion this morning, we're going to be doing

a special edition of coffee house shots where we review, analyze and look back

over the past three years. Now, to describe these past three years as eventful is probably

something of an understatement, so you'll have to figure as if we don't quite capture everything.

But if you cast your mind back to June 2016, just after Britain had voted to leave the

EU, David Cameron had stepped down. There was a brief,

though eventful, Tory leadership contest. And then Theresa May came into Downing Street, seemingly

looking invincible and ready to take on the EU and the negotiations. Now, Fraser, to start us off,

do you think casting your mind back then then, do you think there was a sort of arrogance or

on Theresa May's part or on the

other part that we didn't understand that it was going to happen in the next three years?

Or do you think she had a very good hand and just played it very badly?

I wouldn't call it arrogance, really. I mean, I remember on Brexit night, I came into the office

at sort of two in the morning, you know, as we had completely prepared for remain to win, as everybody

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