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Welcome to Coffee House Shots for Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. It's Monday, and in theory,

the day with the DUP, we're going to come around and back to Theresa May's deal,

therefore bringing with them Jacob Rees-Morgan getting it over the line. But does it look like

it's going to pass out that way? I'm Fraser Nelson, and joined by James Forsyth and Katie Balls to discuss.

So Katie, the DUP has been, in letting it be know that they're in talks with the government.

We all know what those talks would be. We've had Philip Hamm and the Chancellor at the weekend saying he's not

going to bribe them. However, there is a spending review coming up and Northern Ireland will be

looked into it. Is there any white smoke coming out of the DUP, Vatican yet?

So these talks have been ongoing all week and I think the DEP, we know they're very good negotiators,

perhaps we should have sent them to Brussels a while

ago and they've been very keen to update on the progress. As of yet, the government have not been

given the green light from the DEP. Theresa May is holding talks to the DEP today and at that's the

point where we're thinking they are making this formal offer and seeing if it is a goer.

On the menu, we have several reports of what is coming out from these negotiations.

So we're expecting the government to offer to pass legislation, which would almost see a lock.

So it would say that the rest of the UK would stay in line with Northern Ireland.

But we've said the enemy, haven't we?

We haven't put it into law. All right. And one of the UK would stay in line with Northern Ireland. But we've said it anyway, haven't we? We haven't put it into law.

Oh, right.

Okay.

And one of the DEP worries is that Theresa May might be a unionist and say that she's not

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