Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Recording this just after the latest Tory rebellion turned into a non-rebellion in the House of Commons over the somewhat

Monty Python-esque meaningful vote as if a vote could be meaningless on the final deal, one of the

biggest moments in British political history since 1945. but even though it's been

somewhat on the silly side in many respects,

once again, the Tory rebels have not rebelled,

and you do wonder quite what it will take

for Tory rebels to rebel in any significant way

if they defeated the government on the meaningful vote to have one last year.

But since then, Theresa May has won all the votes, and I'm told one of the things she is most

preoccupied about is winning votes, that she fears a defeat that will undermine her in a domestic

context and in the context of the EU negotiation.

So she twists and turns to win these votes, but she has won them all except for one.

And she hasn't had to threaten a vote of confidence or anything like that.

So there she is doggedly continuing.

But I think in a way more revealing this week about her fragility has been that announcement

on the NHS spending. If it had been framed properly and effectively in framing a policy

and an argument is one of the necessary

qualities in a leader. This could have been a moment of some excitement for Theresa May

and she obviously hoped it would be, which is why she announced it without any of the funding

in place. She needed a good moment, But she messed it up on many different levels,

which is interesting, I think, because with Brexit, I kind of understand how she staggers hour by

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