Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's political podcast.

I'm Lara Prendergars and I'm today joined by Fraser Nelson and Jane Forsyth.

So over the weekend, we heard more about Theresa May's secret Brexit plan.

She's supposedly come up with a deal that Brussels is expected to go along with.

James, can you tell us what that deal is?

Well, I think we need to rewind a little bit. So the first thing is that Brexit cabinet ministers are

becoming very concerned because everything has gone very quiet. And when there is a sound of silence

from Brussels, that is the sound of deals being done. A further concern has been heightened by the fact that

Theresa May is going to address the cabinet on Brexit on Tuesday. And what lots of Brexit

to the cabinet ministers fear is that they are about to be banced. She is basically about

to say, here is the outlines of a deal I'm trying to secure, which basically involves a UK-wide

backstop. So she will say to the DEP

don't worry about the normal Irish backstop because the whole of the UK is in

this backstop which is in essence a temporary customs union with the EU the question

then becomes how temporary is temporary and their worry is that they are going to

be faced for a choice on Tuesday of basically saying, okay, we can accept this,

or no, we can't, at which point you're going to say, well, it's no deal then.

And what everyone in government knows is that no deal preparations are nowhere near a point where anyone could confidently say the government is as well prepared as it is possible for any government to be for this scenario.

And, Fraser, I mean, would you have support for this within her cabinet and her party?

She loved lots of opposition, I think, in both her cabinet and her party.

I mean, as far as her party's concerned, you know, the vision implanted in their brain does still remain.

They're still going to vote for what they regard as a proper Brexit. The cabinet,

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