Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, Dispectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Katie Bors,

and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James Forsyfe. So Theresa May is still trying to work out how to get

her deal through. There's a chance of a meaningful vote next week, but if that doesn't happen,

it will happen in two weeks' time. Not helping matters is a growing

brexit here backlash. And today, Nick Timothy, her former chief of staff, has added to her

problems by saying that he thinks the Prime Minister always saw Brexit as a damaged limitation

exercise. James, is this going to mellow those leave MPs who are getting quite anxious about Theresa's plans?

I don't think it's going to mellow MPs who are anxious about Theresa's plans.

I think it fits into a broader question, though, which is I think there are a decent chunk of,

the various people in the European Research Group get very cross when anyone points us out.

But there are definitely some MPs who voted against Theresa May's deal last time round who might be prepared

to hold their nose and vote for it a second time round if they thought that the trade talks was

going to be conducted by somebody else, somebody who, to go back to what you were just saying

about Nick Timothy, someone who, Nick Timothy says that Theresa May regards Brexit as a damning imitation exercise.

What these MPs want is someone who regards it as an opportunity to negotiate the trade deal.

So I think that, so I think it will probably flip attention back onto the whole question of,

would things be different with somebody else?

I think there is, there are undoubtedly some

Brexiters like Andrea Jenkins out this morning saying basically she's not planning to vote for

this even with a change to the backstop. But I think that quite, but there is this, this

ticking clock now, which is if Driesma's deal hasn't passed by the 12th, I think nearly

everyone expects the House of Commons to vote against no deal on the 13th and then for an extension on the 14th.

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