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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and spectator contributor and political commentator Patrick O'Flynn.

So Isabel today was meant to be the day that Richie Sienek had hoped to present his Northern Ireland

protocol plans to cabinet. That hasn't happened and not only is that not happening,

does look like the party is splitting again on Brexit. Tell us about what's going on.

Yeah, so when the readout from cabinets came around from Downing Street this afternoon,

early this afternoon, it did not have the Northern Ireland protocol.

In it in terms of Richie Sienek's plan at one point had been that he was going to present

the agreement on changing the protocol to cabinet. Instead, Richie Sienek told cabinet that

intensive negotiations with the EU continue on resolving the issues caused by the way the protocol

was being enforced. So the split in the party is largely over the legislation that Boris Johnson

introduced on the Northern Ireland protocol, the Northern Ireland protocol bill, which a number of

senior figures, obviously including Boris Johnson, but Sarah Bravenman, the home secretary being,

I think, the key figure here, have warmed against Richie Sienek, John King. That had been his plan

to do that. So there's now a real guard action against that. And you had Sarah Bravenman

making clear that she felt that the freedoms within that legislation were what would resolve

this issue. That's something that's disputed by a number of those involved in the talks.

I've got the Foreign Secretary having talks this afternoon with Mara Sefkiewicz, the European

Commission Vice President, and they are still trying to resolve outstanding issues.

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