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Avantee west coast, feel good travel. Welcome to FT Politics, a weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster from the Financial Times.

I'm Sebastian Payne. In this episode, we'll be dissecting what has been a quite bonkers week in Westminster.

We'll be looking at Theresa Theresa a long-awaited deal with the

EU and the chaos that followed its arrival. I'm delighted to be joined as ever by our finest

political minds. Down the line from Westminster are political added to George Parker. our political

editor George Parker and in the studio white or editor James Blitz

columnist Robert Shrimsley and deputy opinion editor Miranda Green.

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Well it's quite hard to know where to begin. The utter chaos that has been British politics this week began when Theresa May gathered her cabinet on Wednesday for an impromptu meeting to read the final Brexit deal.

And yes, that deal is pretty much as expected and has

been briefed out over the last couple of weeks. The Prime Minister emerged

apparently triumphant from Downing Street to say the Cabinet was on board

but that turned out not quite to be true.

The next morning, Dominic Raub, the Brexit Secretary resigned and did Esther McVeigh and

countless junior ministers and aides.

And now on Friday as we're recording this talk of a leadership challenge against Mrs. May is rife.

So George Parker, though it feels like a lifetime ago, let's just go back to Wednesday and

what exactly happened then because as we spoke about on the podcast last week

the deal has been coming together gradually and finally they got a breakthrough on all the key questions that were stopping a final text being drawn up.

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