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I'm Sebastian Payne and in this week's episode

we'll be discussing the High Court Historic Judgment on Activating Article 50

Divorce Talks and Mark Carney's decision to state the Bank of England until

2019.

I'm glad to be joined by George Parker, the FT's political editor, David Alan Green

are legal commentator, Jane Croft Law Correspondent, Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator and Chris Giles Economics

Editor. Thank you all for joining. So Theresa May's Brexit plans have come to a halt this

week. The High Court dramatically ruled that the Prime Minister is unable to trigger

Article 50 without the approval of Parliament. This is something that her government has long

resisted. Mrs May is going to appeal the decision but it is open all sorts of questions.

Will MPs block Brexit?

Will the House of Lords block it?

Will MPs try and force her negotiating hand?

Will she still make her 2017 deadline to activate Article 50 and does it mean an early general election?

So George Parker, let's just begin with the politics of what happened on Thursday.

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