Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home with me Alan Tolhurst.

This week, deep breath, we're delving back into the Brexit years.

Sorry if this sets up for your political PTSD, but when I heard about a new book being written

on the failed campaign for a second E-Referendum, I knew we had to do an episode on it.

A rag-tag bunch of Remainers, Europhiles and progressives came together in the anti-Brexit movement

following the vote to leave in 2016, hoping to drag the country back to the ballot box in the hope

of a different outcome. How they ended up getting closer than anyone might have expected, while

they ultimately fell short, is the subject of no second

chances, the inside story of the campaign for a second year referendum by the journalist Morgan Jones.

I spoke to her about why that period between 2017 and 2019 has been memory-holded by most in

Westminster, and what we can learn from that period about how the current government, led by

the one-time shadow Brexit secretary, Kirstama,

is reshaping our relationship with the EU.

Speaking alongside her is the Labour MP Andrew Lewin,

who back then founded and ran the Remain Labour Group,

and Anand Menon, presser of European politics at King's College London,

and director of the UK and a changing Europe think tank.

So starting with you, Morgan.

What in the first place made you decide to write this book?

What kind of enticest you about reaching back to those days of the second referendum campaigning to write this book?

I mean, so between mostly 2017 and 2019 in the 2017 Parliament, the anti-Brexit movement was one of a completely

dominating force in British politics. And I mean, I've worked in and around the Labour Party

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