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Cancel any time, Ties and sees apply. Welcome to F.T. Politics, a weekly discussion and review of British politics from the Financial Times.

I'm Sebastian Payne, digital comment editor, and in this episode we'll be looking at the

latest developments in the EU referendum and how the Conservative Party is attempting to hold itself together,

plus the current state of the Scottish economy and how the

SMP is prepping itself for May's elections in Holyrood.

I'm delighted to be joined by an assortment of the FT's finest mines.

George Parker, our political editor, political correspondent Kate Allen, economics editor Chris Giles, and our energy editor Keir and Stacy.

Thank you all for joining.

So we'll kick off our episode by returning to the EU referendum.

We'll be here once or twice before July and looking at the manoeuvres

by David Cameron this week in particular. Earlier in the week he sent a letter to

his cabinet colleagues telling what you are sceptic ministers can and can't say during the campaign.

Chris Grelling, the leader of the House of Commons, then put these rules to the test by

publicly making the case for Britain to leave the EU. And then finally George Osborne

outlined the idea of having a second referendum and said it was rubbish and then

conceded the Treasury isn't making any preparations for Brexit. So George Parker, I'll begin with you. What's the most significant

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