the labour official line is they will vote against but there are some like marilyn —— caroline flint., germany and britain saying saudi arabia has to come up with answers about what happened to this journalist, jamal khashoggi.l lot of bluster from saudi arabia. of course it has big oil reserves and big oil supply that ultimately in a battle with the us in particular, ultimately, there is only going to be one winner enact and clearly what has happened and what seems to have happened was this man went into the saudi continent and has not been seen since. there is a allegedly video and audio of him being killed, dismembered and someone. it's quite clear the saudis have to explain what has happened here and if there is some diplomatic punishment or whatever. .. is some diplomatic punishment or whatever. . . there is some diplomatic punishment or whatever... there is a lot of trade done with saudi arabia, particularly arms deals which would confuse the issue. if we are losing markets elsewhere, we are not going to want to shut down a burgeoning trade market with the saudis, are we? we can

with labour mps as well, those like caroline flint, a brexit constituency, can she be seen to be votingck and white for the potential ofa in black and white for the potential of a new deal which she thinks would be bad for her constituents? it is going to focus minds, if teresa may can get the deal signed. you have indicated the difficulties. it is ha rd to indicated the difficulties. it is hard to tell how much of this is propaganda or brinkmanship, but there are stories this weekend about cabinet ministers considering their position and whether they might resign when the cabinet meets on tuesday and she gives more detail to them, and suggestions that there may only be four letters short of the magic number needed to automatically trigger a leadership challenge. on the cabinet ministers, there is obvious unhappiness there. some are happy with the checkers arrangement until now, after mcveigh, but there has been talk they are unhappy, and they are not there yet. we're speculating on something we don't know what is going to be yet. i think that michael gove arguments, whereby he says tha

clear, because there are some, may i say, more realistic mps, i will name a couple, gareth snell, caroline flintuote gareth snell, "i think the labour party has to be very careful that we are not unwittingly becoming the midwife to a no—deal brexit," that‘s what he sees in the position you have just laid out. theresa may would like to caricature this vote as a vote on any deal she can get or no deal. that is not actually what parliament‘s about. parliament is about delivering for the people. and, therefore, if we don‘t like the deal that she comes back with — and let me just say, i see no prospect of theresa may getting this deal through... that‘s by the by, but we are talking about the labour party... it‘s not by the by, it‘s fundamental! we‘re talking about the labour party‘s position and the labour party‘s responsibility. our responsibility is to oppose and to stand up for working people. you are going to make a no—deal brexit much more likely, that‘s the truth. absolutely not! because what we have said is that we would seek an amendment asking for a people‘s vote. so why does it make it more

caroline flint a labour colleague said the question for my labour colleagues is why wouldn't you supportnterests or labour interests ? country's interests or labour interests? i understand caroline's concerns and that's why we say there are conditions for support for a d, that's what we said at the beginning of the exercise. we will have to judge it against conditions when she comes back. is she wrong? at the moment we don't know what the deal looks like and the idea the labour party should be told you vote for it, what may is not acceptable. you would be challenging me hard if i said our policy is whatever she brings back we will support it even if it doesn't serve the country, you'd be saying what are you talking about? you should only supported if it's the right deal and that's right. sir keir starmer, labour's shadow brexit secretary. for more that use this morning that the duchess of sussex is a baby. let's talk to a couple of my guests now. claudia joseph, you said you suspected. i thought she was dressed very sedately this weekend, lots of conjecture on twitter why she is so butto