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guests please enjoy responsibly. Hello and welcome to FT politics our weekly discussion of UK politics at Westminster and Beyond with me Miranda Green.

We will be joined by Sebastian Payne, political leader writer, your usual host, and by James

Blitz, author of our daily Brexit briefing, to discuss the latest shenanigans at Westminster,

and then by Jim Picard, chief political correspondent, and by Paul Mason, the writer and campaigner,

to discuss Labour's position.

So, first of all, Sebb and James, we're going to turn to another week of sort of frenzied activity on all sides in Parliament, a slew of amendments. fren hard levers and then the committed remainers on the other side and all shades of opinion

in between seemingly and put in mind of that saying if you're not confused by now you're not

paying attention so James can you please shed some light on all this for us? Of all of these amendments that have been put down to be voted on on Tuesday, which ones matter and how do they actually change the probabilities of whether we're leaving on March the

29th? Well the one that matters more than all the others is the amendment that's

been put down by the backbench labor MP Yvette Cooper. the other

the other's been put down by the Backbench Labour MP Yvette Cooper together with Backbench Conservative MP Nick Bowles.

And what that does basically, and remember these are amendments to a statement that has been a very vague statement made by Mrs May about her way ahead.

This is not the second big attempt she's going to make to get her deal through.

It's just a kind of procedural point. But the amendment that's put

down by Yvette Cooper basically says this. When Mrs May comes back in February with a second attempt

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