Hello, my name is David Ronson and this is Talking Politics. This weekend an anonymous

conservative MP and the kind of hateful and lured language they tended for said we

have entered the killing zone when it comes to Brexit. So we're going to talk about who

is really at risk of catastrophe and where does the risk come from?

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We have Helen Thompson with us, Chris Bickettin. It's a pleasure as well to welcome back Diane

Coil, economist and professor of public policy here in Cambridge. So there was that whole

set of anonymous briefings and some of the language is even worse and it is you know thought

they might have learnt from when George Osborne said that he wanted to chop Mrs. May

up that it's not a good look to talk like that. So we're not going to talk about the sort

of killing language but there are lots of other phrases that are being bandied around

here and I'm going to offer a few about worst case scenarios just how bad this could get.

So one comes out of some conversations I had in Denmark, I'm sure they're not representative

conversations but I was still struck by the force which this was said when I was there

a couple of weeks ago a number of people said to me how is Britain coping with its national

humiliation. The thought being that the Brexit negotiations have completely humiliated

Britain and I said are we being humiliated? I hadn't kind of picked that up and that seemed

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