Hello, John.

Yes, let's crack on.

Welcome to another busy Thursday afternoon in the politics unit.

It is 2.45, exactly, and this is a special Brexit edition of Red Lines.

Huge developments this morning.

We're going to talk through those and the implications of them.

Mark Devonport's with me in Belfast. John Campbell is in Brussels. Our political correspondent, End of McLaugherties in Westminster. He's been there all week. He's had to dash off to speak to the DUP. We hope we'll get a chance to have a word with him at some stage while we're recording this. But in the meantime, I'm going to go to John Campbell in Brussels, first of all,

because you've had a hugely busy day, hugely busy week, it has to be said.

We have the deal, and you are now, along with everybody else,

digesting the significance of it.

Talks through the bones of what we're looking at here, John.

I'm mainly trying to digest a chicken coronation sub at the minute

because it's the first thing I've had to eat all day.

But anyway, we'll crack on nonetheless.

So, yeah, it's been a mad week.

It's been on again.

It's been off again.

Late night, it's early mornings.

Nobody really seemed to know what was happening.

Then 1045, Jean-Claude Juncker tweets that the deal is done

not long after that I had occasion to have a very quick chat with Jean-Claude Juncker because

the whole EPP, the European People's Party group they were meeting at the hotel just down the street

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