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Hello and welcome to the Spectator Podcast. I'm Lara Prendergast.

This week, as Boris Johnson is hauled back into Parliament, we ask, is Brexit ever going to happen?

Plus, we take a look at how relations have fared between Saudi and America since the death of Jamar Khashoggi, and finally we take a look at the angry world of knitting.

First up, has the establishment foiled Brexit again? That's what Rod Liddell argues in this week's

cover piece. With the Supreme Court ruling, Boris Johnson has been dealt a humiliating blow,

and MPs can now do their best to tie his hands further.

Rod despairs that we'll never leave the EU, but is it fair to think of this as a grand conspiracy to prevent Brexit? Rod joins me down the line, and with me in the studio is Anand Menon, director of the think tank UK in a changing Europe.

Rod, the prophecy in your recent book appears to be coming true.

You said that Brexit would never happen back in 2016, and your book continues this argument.

Did you know that you'd always be right on this?

Yes, it's a wonderful piece to write.

I have always been right about everything.

I thoroughly enjoyed writing it.

It's slightly mitigated my disappointment that we won't be getting Brexit.

But, no, I don't quite see how the levers,

there are still many in this category,

believed from the beginning of this year that Brexit was

remotely possible because there's been, without question, a concerted attempt to stifle it.

They're still harboring these delusions even now.

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