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  • I mean, there is only one reason why the withdrawal agreement didn't pass last time in Parliament.

  • And that's because of the backstop on the fact that that Tizer is very closely to you in so many ways.

  • Including might be one thing.

  • Quite a big thing, though, isn't it?

  • Which nobody seems that well, the prime minister said last night.

  • I think the mulch house compromise we have the one thing that did pass in Parliament recently.

  • She's a Brady Amendment, which sought to implement the motels compromise that was voted for that did receive a majority in parliament.

  • And I think if the prime minister we've had yesterday is making progress on on that type of compromise, then then I think, I think, had deal Mate Palace in Parliament.

  • You know it's no, it's as you say, it's difficult.

  • Even if we just had a legally binding exit date where we could leave without 27 other countries saying No, you can't that would be enough for many of us to vote for it.

  • Well, it's not that simple.

  • The prime minister's deal is not acceptable because it offers people no certainty and no clarity about what the future will look like it doesn't confront really any of the challenges off Brexit.

  • Does anyone know what it's gonna look like?

  • There were new territory well, before your time, wanting a vision of a little I will never get there.

  • We Well, we could have found a deal that would have kept us in the customs union on the single market, which would have offered much more certainty to businesses and for people in their travel.

  • Leaving says who?

  • Because we could still in the foreign, the customs union, settle market.

  • That's it takes the weight.

  • Will it see to negotiate free trade deals on that's valid actual fundamental tenets of leaving the years?

  • Well, none of that was on the ballot paper on Dhe Lee.

  • If the If.

  • If the prime minister wanted to bring people together on Dhe, say, Let's get an agreement across the House of Commons so that we can get this dawn.

  • That was the way to do it.

  • But instead, she's had this constant row in her own party on Nadine's wrong.

  • Actually, yes, the Brady Amendment did pass, but so did the Spellman Dromi amendment.

  • Remember, very mind, you guys living it but just explain some of these, and it started anybody at home so that that amendment, which also has passed through the House of Commons, says We don't want to leave with no deal.

  • But I voted for him to deal with me at will.

  • Mean activated article for me invoked Article 50.

  • We voted to do a deal.

  • I don't died already.

  • I do know agree.

  • I actually didn't vote Thio trigger this process off because it was heading in the right direction.

  • But actually those that did I don't think they voted for food price hikes because we have to slap tariffs on cheese.

  • And that's where you're going to New York off.

  • Wait 24.

  • Your government are working to put them in place right now as we speak.

  • Perhaps they haven't.

  • They have spent billions on no deal because the Tory party cannot agree.

  • So I would send peace where the Labour Party's in doing brilliantly on agreeing, either.

  • I mean, nine MPs left not a lot about the issues of leaving the, but that's a really serious issue.

  • Yeah, what about chunk of, um were because they didn't Couldn't find agreement on that.

  • Yeah, I think that's not a good thing.

  • I don't want anybody to leave the Labour Party.

  • Actually, on Brexit.

  • We kind of had a big row in September.

  • Our conference on, we agreed a policy that we would.

  • Here's the kind of deal we said that we could vote for on.

  • We've been putting that forward ever since.

  • We said Look, this might get to crisis point We should probably have a general election And I think anybody looking at the House of Commons now would think fixes, you know, it's not going well, but in the end, exactly that was that was mine.

  • That was my cue to say that in the end the time might run out.

  • But we might need to put this back to the Peter to actually run out the time.

  • Nadine, I hope not.

  • I hope that she is going to come back on the 12th hit there.

  • She's right on Dhe.

  • They she's not being led to get up into the path that they are going to give some way on the backstop.

  • What I do think very much and I've been thinking a lot over the last 48 hours in terms of What would I do if I were the prime minister?

  • If she comes back with some kind of movement on the bangs dark, even if it's only a time limited claws or a legal codicil or something binding that gives us that except that will pass in the House of Commons regard, I know it won't pass the Alison.

  • She probably won't vote for it, but it will pass in the Commons.

  • And if that passes in the Commons, and what would I do?

  • If I were the prime minister, I would go straight into a general election because then I would look for a Monday from the people to reinforce that.

  • And we have the local elections coming in May on I do know that one thing in her heart Theresa May does not want to do is for hell legacy to be what happened in the 17 election.

  • So I think that what she wants to do is get a Brexit vote through the House of Commons on then I think we might see John Election if that happens in May.

  • But on this backstop point, I know it's very important to some members of the Conservative Party But it's really about the Good Friday agreement on making sure that the Island of Ireland copy thrown into disarray by court actions that we take gonna happen.

  • It's just I don't think it's just as simple as Let's just get a piece of apron on.

  • I'm not sure it's that life.

  • Is that what happened?

  • A demon saying If she gets this Brexit deal through and then decides to call a general election, that's something that Labour would welcome cause that's what Jimmy called.

  • Yes, absolutely.

  • I mean, if that was to happen that would you'd see that as a positive thing.

  • Well, I I felt for a long time that if it wasn't for recent changes in the law, we would be having a general election because I think that vote against the deal.

  • Massive 230 members of parliament majority humanity's swing it way back then, did she get some credit for finding a deal that people can vote for?

  • Well, the fact is that, as I was saying before, she's ready, credit the recent changes.

  • There was an immediate voting confidence in Theresa May in Parliament, and she want it yet.

  • I mean, they're Plato that for that.

  • I can't.

  • I don't know why Tory MPs voted against her in a big vote one day and then vote to have confidence in the next day.

  • I don't really know why they Well, that's up to them.

  • But way ought to be having a general action.

  • If we don't.

  • Then even the dean said, actually, on principle, this issue at some point is probably gonna be George by the British public.

I mean, there is only one reason why the withdrawal agreement didn't pass last time in Parliament.

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