Welcome to the Political Fix, your essential guide to Westminster from the Financial Times

with me, Stephen Bush.

And what a week it's been, just as we were about to publish this week's pod, Dominic

Rob, the Deputy Prime Minister announced he was resigning.

The Prime Minister will now be forced to bring forward a cabinet reshuffle, which many

had expected to take place after May's local elections.

We'll look at the fallout of Rob's resignation in coming editions of Political Fix, but

for now we've got something different on the menu.

An extended edition recorded as an FT Live webinar and hosted by my colleague Miranda Greene.

We asked, is a Labour victory over the Conservatives expected next year inevitable?

On the panel with Miranda and me were Jane Greene, Professor of Political Science and British

Politics at Nuffield College Oxford and Peter Foster, the FT's Public Policy Editor.

Viewers sent in dozens of questions during the live event.

First up, Miranda put a viewer's question to Peter Foster.

How much of an issue will Brexit remain in the coming general action?

So I think it is genuinely an issue question because I think Brexit is everywhere but nowhere

in the election.

Neither political party really wants to get into a Brexit discussion, certainly not the Labour

Party.

And if you've got opinion polling on Brexit, the public mood has soured on Brexit, certainly

on the economics of Brexit.

And so beyond the top level commitment to getting the opportunities of Brexit and boosts

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