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

I'm joined by Dan Hodges from the Melon Sunday, as well as Paul Goodman from the Conservative Home and Katie Balls.

It's the Saturday edition and today we'll be talking about whether or not there's a chance of an early autumn election.

Now Katie, you write in this week's

spectator that there is a good chance of that. Tell us about your thinking. So I've noticed

in probably the past week that a few of perhaps the lagging campaign teams have resorted to

Gallo's humour. So one of the things they've been saying to each other is, well, we might not

win this time, but don't worry because we're going to see each other again in November.

And one aide says we're using this leadership campaign as a test run when the whole thing collapses in the autumn.

Now, I think that if we are talking about a November leadership contest, the idea is that this is perhaps not for the role of prime

minister. Instead, this time it would be for the leader of the opposition. Because when you speak

to various candidates, the thinking is whoever wins this leadership contest has a very tough job.

They have to try and deal with the Brexit deadline at the end of October.

And I think given that Boris Johnson is currently the favourite, it does seem like as though whoever

is picked to be the next Prime Minister is going to set a hard red line deadline that the

UK has to be out of the EU by the end of October.

Now, with all the various forces that they have to deal with, so for example, if you want

to renegotiate the deal, as every candidate currently in the race has said they want to

do, how much time do you have?

If the contest really ends at the end of July, you don't have time in terms of when the EU

leaders are back from their summer holidays.

So at Cabinet this week, Gavin Barwell suggested there were just 24 sitting days of Parliament

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