This is Spectator Radio and you're listening to The Spectator podcast with Lara Prendergast.

Hello and welcome to The Spectator podcast. I'm Lara Prendergast and it's been yet another crazy week of twists and turns in the Brexit saga.

Theresa May has been back in Brussels trying to beg the EU leaders for a short

extension for Brexit. So as James Forsyth writes in our cover story this week, has Theresa May humiliated

the UK by handing over control to Brussels? Also on the podcast, as the UK relies more and more

on doctors trained abroad, why do we have a serious problem finding

doctors at home? And finally, at the end, I speak to an Archer's super fam. As Jane Forsyth

writes in this week's cover story, Theresa May has lost control of Brexit and her party. Her Brexit

missteps, he says, will have long-lasting implications for the Conservative Party. To make sense of it all, Katie Balls, our deputy political editor, talk to Jane Forsyth, our political editor,

and former university's minister Sam Jima, who resigned his post in protest at Maysdale.

James, in your cover piece in this week's spectator, you write that the Tory's current

humiliation could be as cataclysmic as labours in 1976. What do you mean by

that? Well, it's hard to think of a time when the country was more humiliated than it is being today

because the future of this country isn't being decided in Westminster or in Whitehall,

but in Brussels and the other 27 capitals of the EU. The problem is

that the request for an extension, this is not a negotiation, this is something that is entirely

up to the EU, whether it is granted or not. And so as with the IMF bailout, the UK government

for its functioning is dependent on some external actor saying yes or no.

Sam, you've been very outspoken about how you don't think you could support the Prime Minister's deal,

how you think that we could be heading back towards a second referendum.

Are you one of these MPs who thinks an extension is the right thing now?

I think the way I look at an extension is we are making a decision now

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