Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shops, the spectator's political podcast.

I'm Nora Prendergast and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Fraser Nelson.

So James, over the weekend, we heard about May and Corbyn, who are set to hold further talks.

And we've this morning heard about this warm letter that May has written to Corbyn.

And we're about to see a kind of deal between the two of them?

So I think the tone of this letter, as you say, is surprisingly warm.

I mean, it isn't just a pure point scoring letter.

But it is worth noting that she isn't moving on the kind of permanent customs union,

which Corbyn wants as a kind of proof that he has forced,

because he knows the damage it does to the Tory party if Theresa May accepts it.

But I think what you see Theresa May trying to do is she's now actually emphasising the bits in her deal

that do look rather like a customs union.

And you also see her unveiling kind of individual concession after concession designed, I think,

to try and peel off individual Labour MPs to back the deal. So, for example, we're not going to get

full-on dynamic alignment with the EU on workers' rights and environmental rights, but she will

legislate so that every time the EU changes the rules on these areas, Parliament gets a vote on

whether it wants to follow suit. In a way, this isn't that much of a concession, because

if there's a majority in Parliament for following suit, that suggests that the governing party

wants to follow suit. And so it's not that much for concession. But it's all mood music, I think,

designed to make it easy for, easier for

first year or so Labour MPs to vote for her deal.

Fraser, what do you make of me, closing up to Corbyn?

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