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SoundCloud, Bloomberg.com and of course on the Bloomberg. Tom Keene took a day off. Can you believe that? Lisa Abramowitz did not. She's sitting

in for Tom and she'll be with us all morning here on Bloomberg surveillance. You know,

Lisa, if you drive straight north from London, you come to Cambridge, take a left,

you go a couple of miles up the road and you get to Mattingly, population 210.

What does it look like?

The Lord?

Well, we're going to find out because the Lord of the Matter.

Farron Brown of Mattingly, Lord John Brown, is with us, the former CEO of BP, one of the people we have been talking to at length

over the whole Brexit process, and I want to get to that.

But what is it like in Mattingly? It's a very small town. It's got a crossroads. It's got a church. It's got a pub. It's got a restaurant and a few houses. So this is the UK equivalent of a one horse town.

Does everybody know each other?

Absolutely.

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