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Hello and welcome to The Spectator Podcast. I'm Lara Prendergars.

With the resignations of David Davis and Boris Johnson, the only progress the negotiations seems to be making is somewhat backwards.

So, is Brexit just going in circles?

We also ask, are pit bulls really the murderous dogs from hell that they're portrayed as being?

And finally, we ask, what does it mean to be English?

So, Brexit, what's going on? In the last few days,

the Prime Minister has not only lost her Brexit Secretary, but also the Foreign Secretary,

a Brexit Minister and two Tory Party Vice-Chairs. All have quit on the grounds that her

chequers deal is too soft. May seems to have stabilised the government for now, but what next for the

Prime Minister? In this week's cover, James Forsyth, our political editor, writes that a no-deal Brexit,

or calling off the whole thing altogether, are now both distinct possibilities. James joins me now,

together with Paul Goodman, the former Conservative MP and editor of Conservative Home, and John Springford, deputy director at the Centre for European Reforms.

So James, can you start, first of all, by outlining what's been going on in the past few days?

Well, I think the most significant thing that has happened since Chequers is it has become apparent that Theresa May doesn't have the votes

in the Commons to pass her Brexit deal, even if the EU agreed to it with only very minor

alterations, which is in and of itself unlikely. Because what the resonations of Boris Johnson

and David Davis shows is that this isn't going to just be Jacob Rees Morgan, a dozen Eurosceptic ultras voting against this deal. But this rebellion goes far deeper into

a Conservative Party. I mean, you saw that yesterday when Ben Bradley and Maria Caulfield,

who are two people who no one would have had down as kind of hard, ultra-hardcore Brexiteers,

resigned as party vice chairman to oppose the deal. And one cabinet minister and this

person voted remaining in the referendum. So this isn't hope being the farther of the fort said to me,

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