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Hello and welcome to this edition of The Westminster Hour with me, Vicky Young and my guests.

Five years after Brexit is the time now ripe for a reset of the UK's relationship with the EU.

The Prime Minister wants to smooth trade and deepen defence ties, but what might the

EU want in return? We'll also discuss the controversial deal for the UK to seed sovereignty

of the Chegos Islands to Mauritius. Why has it become politically controversial, not least

with the Trump administration? We'll talk about US trade tariffs too. And will the

latest attempts to curb the use of AI in the production of abusive and violent images prove

effective? That's all coming up. First, let's meet my panel. Shammy Chakrabati, a well-known

human rights lawyer and director of the campaigning organisation, Liberty, before she entered frontline labour politics.

She was appointed to the House of Lords by Jeremy Corbyn and served as his shadow attorney general.

Andrew Mitchell was Deputy Foreign Secretary under Rishi Sunak.

He's a former International Development Secretary and is the Conservative MP for Sutton-Colfield.

Good evening.

Sophia Gaston is with us too, a foreign policy expert specialising in defence and security.

She's a visiting research fellow in the War Studies Department at King's College, London.

Good evening.

And welcome back to Rosa Prince, too.

Rosa is a distinguished Westminster journalist who has just started a new role as UK political commentator for Bloomberg. Congratulations on the new gig.

Thank you. And hello. And Rosa is also the biographer of Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May. So she knows a thing or two about getting Westminster insiders to share their private thoughts on party leaders.

And that's exactly what two Westminster journalists, Gabriel Pogrand and Patrick McGuire, have done in their new book called Get In about Labour, which is being serialised in the Sunday Times.

And it's causing a bit of a stir because it suggests some frustration

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