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It is not every week on the political thinking podcast that our guest is a lover of poetry.

And so let us say with Milton,

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and prescient nation.

Rousing herself like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks.

Methinks I see her as an eagle,

Newing her mighty use and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full medday beam.

Ladies and gentlemen, let us seize that prize. Thank you.

That was the warm up man for the Prime Minister at last year's Tory Party conference.

The man with the voice, the Attorney General, Jeffrey Cox.

The man who we're now told is the crucial figure around the cabinet table.

A lever who explains to me as he explained to them that compromise is now needed if Britain

is ever to get out of the EU. I say we must use any means to secure the ends. Any lawful means

I should add as Attorney General. We are assisting at the birth of something new.

Births are not always easy and we must take the necessary steps to achieve our departure.

In just a few moments, my conversation with him about how exhaustion is making him and other

ministers and MPs struggle to think straight, but how poetry can bring order to the emotions.

This week, not for the first time, a Prime Ministerial broadcasts from Downing Street

unleashed those emotions. So today, I am taking action to break the log jam.

I'm offering to sit down with the leader of the opposition and to try to agree a plan

that we would both stick to to ensure that we leave the European Union and that we do so with a deal.

One reason the Prime Minister's decisions call such shock is that she rarely rehearses them

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