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This week, Theresa May finally agreed to step down, but is it going to be enough to save her Brexit deal?

We also take a look at the government's plans to restrict consumption of pornography

and we find out about the Victorian women who travelled the world.

So she's finally done it.

Theresa May has promised to step down if her Brexit deal passes.

But what does this mean for Brexit, the Tory party and the country? Our deputy

political editor, Katie Balls, spoke to James Forsyth and former Cabinet Minister Nicky Morgan

earlier. So Nikki, this was the week Theresa May pledged to go with a more specific

timetable than her previous pledge before Christmas. Did you expect her to make this promise?

I wasn't entirely sure that she was going to make it as specifically as she did at the 1922 meeting.

I think I knew that she had been told by a number of senior conservatives that that was the mood

of the party. And I myself had said publicly that I didn't think she's the right person to

lead us into phase two of the negotiations. But I think it's fair to say with this Prime Minister that until she's actually

uttered the words, it's never entirely clear whether she's going to say what was expected. And,

you know, we've known before she's going to say something and then actually it hasn't turned out

to be, you know, quite the statement that we had expected. So I think it was a useful clarification, but there's still

a huge test, which is getting withdrawal agreement approved. And James, on there, there was a view

that was pushed by some Brexiteers that were Theresa May to signal her departure, then it would help

get her deal over the line. Are we any closer, though, to getting to that second phase of negotiations?

I think with Theresa May in front of get this withdrawal agreement through, it has always been two steps forward, one step back,

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