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So as we head into Tory Party conference, Theresa May has never looked so alone.

So says James Forsyth in this week's issue.

We talk to Ian Duncan Smith and James about a Prime Minister abandoned.

And while chaos reigns in the Tory Party, Labour is gearing up for government, led by a pragmatic but radical shadow chancellor. But just who is John Macdonnell and what does he believe in?

And last, why is Tesco's new discount retailer quite so Brexit-y?

So first, it's the Prime Minister's 62nd birthday this week and she'll be celebrating it at Tory party conference with thousands of party members and listening to a speech by Philip Hammond.

But as James says in this week's issue, Theresa May has never seemed quite so alone. At home, neither the Brexiteers or Remainers seem to have much sympathy for her while she

tries to push her vision of Brexit. And on the continent, she's routinely humiliated by the leaders

and negotiators. And what's more, while Brexit rumbles on, the Tory's domestic agenda has been

hopelessly weak. So, what can she now do? And is the party completely without direction? Fraser Nelson,

the editor of the spectator, talks to James Forsyth, our political editor and Ian Duncan Smith,

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