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Head to octopusevo.com to get started today. Hello and welcome to FT politics a weekly podcast from the Financial Times.

I'm George Parker the FT's politicalT's political editor, standing in for

Sepp Payne. He'll be back in the hot seat next time. This week we'll be looking

at the extraordinary convulsions at UKIP in the aftermath of the party's failure to win a by-election in Stoke, a city

that UKIP leader Paul Nuttle claimed was the capital of Brexit.

Is the party now facing a long and acrimonious decline. But first Brexit action of a different

kind. The House of Lords has made life a little more difficult for Theresa May,

voting to amend the Prime Minister's EU withdrawal bill,

which will allow her to start the process of Brexit,

so as to enshrine the rights of EU citizens already living in the UK.

Next week, peers are expected to amend the bill again this time

insisting that Mrs May should hold a meaningful vote in Parliament on the result of

her Brexit negotiation if indeed she ends up with a deal at all.

The former Prime Minister John Major joined the Frey this week

with a barely veiled criticism of Mrs May's

unreal and over-optimistic negotiating plan.

So where does it all leave us? To discuss the... over-optimistic negotiating plan.

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