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I'm Sebastian Payne and in this week's episode

we'll be discussing treason made efforts to reach out to business and whether some

Labour MPs should be deselected. I'm delighted to be joined by George Parker, the

F. T's political editor, Plito commentator Miranda Green, plus two close observers of

the Labour Party, Paul Mason and John McTernan. Thank you all for joining. So the optics of Brexit are continuing to shift around as Theresa May's government is struggling to find its feet after the election humiliation.

But the debate is not really about whether Brexit will happen or not, but whether the UK will have

a close or faraway relationship with the EU on the other side.

In particular, businesses are finding their voice and are speaking out about the transition period,

that's the time between membership and departure.

They want a close relationship with the EU in that period, and on Friday Friday the great and good of Britain's businesses

gathered at a country house in Kent to discuss what all this means.

So George Parker, what was the significance of the meeting on Friday?

Theresa May's had some dinners with business leaders before,

but this was a little bit different.

You say she had these dinners before,

and I think that's the point that she had minimal contact

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