they that scott lucas for us from the clinton institute university college dublin. thank you very much. we're john hall is life for us now in brussels in den jennifer bricks is it breaks it has a obviously played a huge part in british politics in recent years. and now the full of a 4th prime minister would spin the reaction there. what i think the 1st of all, let's recall that it's often being pointed out that breakfast has been much more of a sort of british psycho drama than it has here on the continent among the leaders of the european union with 6 years. and now from 2016 when the referendum took place with nearly 2 years since the end of the transition period, frankly, a lot of countries, none of the leaders here will have moved on, which is not to say they're not interested. of course, what is happening in britain they certainly all britain is a key trade partner, trade revenues have been severely hampered by bricks if they will care deeply about what is going on and most importantly, who comes next. but i think the coming i was here, this is a shed council m

now he is a professor of international politics at the clinton institute university college of dublin. he joins us from london. i guess. the 1st question is pretty obvious. this was not particularly a surprise that i was at scott i think a lot of us expected it might not happen for a few more weeks just because of the question of who succeeds list trust and go reluctance to get rid of a prime minister. what a lesson 7 weeks after dismissing your previous one. but within the last 24 hours, there was a combination of events, which i think meant she had to go. i think 2 in particular. i think the home secretary celebrate berman, of who resigned yesterday. because of a security breach, either because she wanted to go for her own ambitions or because this simply was negligence. and then 2nd, just the scenes and the commons last night were tory on pays were being forced to vote aah against an investigation or fracking. even though that was something that was in the conservative party manifesto. once the conservative party cannot even run itself in westminster, then it's time for the prime m