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if that's the sort of thing you want. Now normally I ban the B word on the red box

podcast but this week we've got three we've got Berco with the Times Henry Zeffman the budget with

Carl Emerson from the Institute for Fiscal Studies but first Brexit with Rachel

Sylvester. The Brexit talks are on a knife edge ahead of this week's crucial summit.

Theresa May has no room to compromise.

One cabinet minister describes the tiny airstrip just a few meters wide

onto which it would be possible to land a deal with the EU, but the Prime Minister's co-pilots will not let

her adjust course by even a few degrees in order to get the plane to the safe spot.

Well, wait, so this was interesting and it was a new colourful metaphor that I hadn't heard before, but it's basically

summing up the same problem that it feels like Theresa May's being more and more boxed in.

She's in a holding pattern.

She's in a holding pattern. But at some point she's got to, she can stay up there forever otherwise she runs out of fuel or something

Exactly and nobody gets their destination, but I think what I think's fascinating is that her real negotiation now is at least if not more in Westminster as in Brussels.

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