Welcome to F.T. Politics, the Financial Times podcast on British politics.

I'm Sebastian Payne and in this week's episode we'll be discussing the Tory mutineers and what kind of Brexit deal the city London is looking for.

I'm delighted to be joined by our political editor George Parker, city editor Jonathan Ford, Whitehall

editor James Blitz andler commentator Miranda Green.

Thank you all for joining.

The EU withdrawal bill arrived in the House of Commons

this week,

and MPs debated about whether there should be a hard deadline in law

on the UK's exit from the block.

A dozen or so MPs rebelled against IDEA were labelled the Brexit mutineers on the front

page of a national newspaper.

At the same time Ireland raised the prospect of vetoing the move

to the second phase negotiations in December while the UK was warned that it

can't expect to have Alicard access to the single market after it leaves.

George Parker, let's go to the House of Commons.

What was going on there this week?

The EU withdrawal bill went to the floor and there was lots of debate

and lots of amendments table.

What happened?

Well, this is the start of the detailed

consideration of the withdrawal bill it's the start of a marathon session of

debates on the floor of the house between now and Christmas and we had the

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