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

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James Versafe.

So, after much speculation in recent months,

finally MPs have seized control of the government's agenda

and there will be a vote on indicative options, Brexit options, tomorrow night. This appears to

have scared some Brexiteers and made them reconsider Theresa May's deal. This morning, Jacob Rees-Mogg

has concluded that Theresa May's deal is now the least

worst option. Fraser, what does this change of heart from a lead Brexiteer mean?

Well, quite a lot, actually. I mean, Jacob Rees-Mogg has been seen as the bellwether

Brexiteer, the chairman of the European research group, a guy who is seen to be able to bring lots of other people with him.

For a long time now, the government has been working on him, saying, you know, what would it take?

And he has always held out the possibility that he might change his mind.

He's not one of these Tories who says, come hell or high water, I'm not going to vote for Theresa May's deal. He's always

hinted that he was open to reason. What I can't work out is why he would change his mind now.

If he changes mine before the second vote, it might have passed. Now, of course, we do know

what the big change is. The big change is that Oliver's army, Letwin's lots have managed to seize control

from them the government and give the Parliament all these indicative votes, making it manifestly

clear to those who hadn't quite worked it at before that all of the likely alternatives to Theresa May's

deal are worse than Theresa May's deal, certainly from a Brexiteer point of view.

Now, I can see why it took him so long. I was always holding out for something better. I think

her deal is awful. I really thought that the EU might have been persuaded to compromise and do

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