Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you

slide by on track to your

there,

to care in the world as you simply lean back.

And before you know it, you're there.

This is how travels should feel,

and on our trains it does.

Avanti West Coast feel good travel. Welcome to F.T. Politics, a weekly podcast on British politics from the Financial Times.

I'm Sebastian Payne. In this episode we'll be discussing

Theresa May's visit to America as well as from the outcome of the Supreme Court ruling

plus Labour's two upcoming by-election challenges. I'm delighted to be joined by political columnist

Janan Ganesh, Chief Foreign Affairs commentator Gideon Rachman, Andrew Bounds

are north of England correspondent, plus Matt Singh from Number Crunch Politics.

Thank you all for joining.

So it's been another busy Brexit week for Theresa May.

Earlier on the Supreme Court ruled that an act of Parliament would have to be passed

before the Prime Minister could trigger Article 50.

The government swiftly accepted this result and introduced a simple bill that will be

factual through Commons and the Lords over the next week so she can keep her March deadline.

Then the Prime Minister hopped on a plane to America

to speak to congressional Republicans about her new vision to try and lead the West and

on Friday she is due to meet President Donald Trump for their first major encounter.

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