do you see it, chris leslie, as a softening of the position?for a so—called hard brexit and we were leaving the customs union and going for a deal that is almost exactly the same in all but name. do you now hope this is a softer brexit? i would hope so and philip hammond seems to be trying to pull the government in that direction. my worry is that there are so many obstacles that have to be thought through properly. for instance, how is the uk going to get a fresh free trade agreement with the eu through all of those national parliaments across the eu? for instance, all of those existing trade deals that we in the uk enjoy, how do we get those grandfathered, basically, readopted the uk. we are facing a problem. the vote leave guys promised, in the referendum, john and vote leave promised that straight after the referendum, from day one, we'd be able to negotiate all these trade deals. but has not happened. tomorrow's papers are writing this up as a victory for those who support softer brexit in the challenge, a victory for the chancellor. as an

chris leslie, good afternoon. what do you make of this paper?erendum of course was quite finely balanced, and vote leave made this big commerce before the referendum that there wouldn't be any european court ofjustice over site at all, we could be out, isolated, totally cut off from that, and it turns out the government are now effectively saying, actually, there will still be influence of the european court of justice, there will still be influence of the european court ofjustice, they might be claiming they can rename it as an arbitration panel or some sort of dispute resolution body, but ultimately the truth, which is that if you have shared trade, shared arrangements committee will have to have some sort of shared dispute resolution mechanism, that is beginning to creep out and there was nothing the government can do the sort of gloss over that. not true, they say, if you compare for example they say, if you compare for example the deals with canada or with singapore within the eu? even in some of those deals, you have arrangements where whe

let‘s get reaction to this now and speak to the labour mp chris leslie, who is a supporter of the cross—partytions that the government is talking about, either this streamlined border or a new partnership with the customs border at all, do you think either of these options are likely to work out? well, if it is dawning on ministers that there is a major catastrophe if we leave the customs union altogether, i suppose that is a step in the right direction. what imean by a step in the right direction. what i mean by have your cake and eat it, the british government asking the eu, would you mind giving us all of the good bits that we benefit from and have none of the difficulties or responsibilities. it is a bit of a fa ntasy to responsibilities. it is a bit of a fantasy to start your negotiation with such high expectations. we have already heard from the european union that there will not be a beer on that basis. far better, in my view, therefore, to say, less to stay in the customs union, because it is by far the most efficient, frictionless, tariff free trade area of anywhere in the world. any

let's bring in chris plant, leslie marshall. good to see you both. chris, i will jump in with the divide between this president and some members of his own party. you have heard him call them out. is senator john mccain. is senator jeff blake. are these men in the president's way for his agenda now? both of arizona. not called out by name in the rally speech last night but certainly eluded too. >> right john mccain was a problem in the repeal of the obamacare. that would of been a big legislative victory if john mccain moved from here to there. he has a personal ax to grind. it would have been a great legislative victory. senator mccain key in blocking the success. senator blake has a book out making the rounds, taking shots at president trump quite honestly, on show after show at every opportunity. so, he has a personal ax to grind there too. president trump has demonstrated he's not adverse to grinding personal axes with members of his own strategy. >> is it a good strategy. >> is it a good strategy, that's a different question. if the pressure brin