i'm joined from our westminster studio by the conservative mp chris philp. thank you forjoining us.hat is going on inside the cabinet if theresa may is saying we need is stockpile money and philip hammond says no. that is not what happened. philip hammond gave an interview to the times i think yesterday, published this morning, in which he said he would be willing to authorise spending when it was necessary. he repeated that position to the treasury select committee this morning. and at prime minister's questions today and the pro—minister confirmed the same thing. the position is identical. when we need to spend money to prepare for an ideal scenario, which we are hoping to avoid, until we know we will definitely avoided we will make contingency plans, and the pm and the chancellor both say we will spend money to do that. so far they have allocated £412 million, to make those contingency plans. £250 million of which has already been allocated. it is the responsible thing to do, to get ready in case we don't get a deal. which services will suffer if more money is needed? 412 million

i am nowjoined by conservative mp chris philp, who serves in the treasury team. is not where you wanted your government to be. it is deeply frustrating that we are not talking about trade or even transition. what is really frustrating is that it doesn't have to be that way. the eu negotiating team have chosen voluntarily not to discuss trade in transition. that makes a no deal scenario more likely because the clock is ticking. if we did have no deal that wouldn't be good for the uk although we'd deal with it but it's not good for the eu either. it is extraordinary. it put german and french jobs at risk as well. no deal used to sound like hyperbole, now it is more likely. your government has one job, to get a deal. we are ready to talk about trade, transition, mutual recognition of citizens‘ rights and agree a deal on that today. in fact we were ready to talk about those things six months ago. but you're not ready to put more money on the table to let those talks start. no reason why money should be a precondition to talking about trade, it is an artificial condit

party onside and we know that within that party they have different views, we can discuss this with chris philpare about to start, many people are talking about the british government being able to walk away, that no deal has got to bea walk away, that no deal has got to be a notch and in order to get the best deal. is that true? —— has got to be an option in order. what we are seeing, the british government have made significant overtures to the european commission and the eu, in the florence speech the prime minister was clear that we were looking for a transition deal that is in both interests and that contributions might continue in that period, she has made generous offers on mutual recognition of citizens rights and in a range of other areas, and be bald is in the eu's court to respond positively to that —— the ball. it is ridiculous that they are even saying today that they will not contemplate trade talks about the future arrangements, their current position is that michel barnier won't even talk about a transition deal, and that is clearly not reasonable and it will damage the national