How likely is it that Theresa May will end up losing the game of parliamentary ping-pong she’s currently playing, and what will be the consequences if she does?

Ten days from their next major summit, and with progress on talks all but stalled, have the EU27 now got more important things on their plate than Brexit? What might be the consequences of that?

Why has the government decided to reach for, then double down on, an obvious obfuscation (and that’s a polite word for it) – the so-called Brexit dividend, which it says will be used to fund a much-needed £20bn increase in NHS spending over the next few years. And what might that say about the ongoing Brexit tug-of-war in the Commons?

And what of Michel Barnier’s latest pronouncements, principally on police and security cooperation after Brexit and on the European court of human rights? What might they say about the EU’s apparent determination to make sure it treats the UK as a third country in almost all areas after Brexit?

With Jon Henley to discuss it all are Jennifer Rankin, the Guardian’s Brussels correspondent, and Martin Kettle, associate editor and columnist.



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