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Search AON Global Catastrophe Recap to get started. Hello I'm Helen. I'm Stephen and in a special smaller beijou but nonetheless emergency

affrated with excitement in the States from podcast this week.

We discuss the Brexit deal and its prospects for passing the House of Commons.

And we ask, where's Jeremy Corbyn.

Brexit deal Stephen, are you pumped? Um, yeah, well, I mean, the thing Patrick and I always say to one another in the lobby is the kind of weird thing about Brexit is that if I were, you know, the London

correspondent for the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times or the New York

or whatever, I would be going, wow, this is an exciting story.

I sure hope it works out fine for these people and I'm certainly glad that I'm paid in dollars.

But because unlike this hypothetical London correspondent I did not have an American visa

I'm not paid in dollars and I have no way to escape

this country and almost everyone I know and care about also lives here and

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