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Hello and welcome to The Spectator podcast. I'm Lara Prendergast.

This week it's Sex, Drugs and the Brexit Party. We hear about how Nigel Farage's new party is racing ahead in the polls and causing more problems for the Tories.

Plus, there's a fiery debate on drugs legalisation, and finally,

I hear about what it takes to be a real lesbian. First up, James Fasthe writes in our magazine's

cover story that the Tory's inability to deliver Brexit may deliver Farage's Brexit party a win at the

upcoming European elections. And could we be looking at the beginning of a more European-style coalition

government within our own parliament? Earlier, our deputy political editor, Katie Balls, talked to James,

along with Matthew Goodwin, political academic and author. James, considering the Brexit party has

only officially existed for a month or so, why have they been so successful in the polls?

Because I think they are tapping into widespread public anger at the fact that Brexit has not

been delivered. I think it's quite interesting if you listen to what Nigel Farage is saying,

this isn't an argument about a kind of Gat 24 agreement or the benefits of trading on world trade

organisation terms. It's very simply, you voted for Brexit. Why haven't the politicians

delivered it? And I think here in Westminster, there's a sense that Brexit has become more

complicated since the referendum. Everyone now wants to discuss rules of origin, checks at the

board, all those kind of things.

What Farage has realised is that for vast ways of the electorate, it's actually become a simpler

question since the referendum. It is now a question about where power resides in the country.

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