with us now is cornelia meyer, chair and chief economist at lbv asset management. sorry, we are so childish. thank you very much forjoining us. starting with the serious business of brexit, featuring in a lot of papers in the uk. in many ways, this is the risk theresa may took launching a snap election? it gives parties a chance to reposition themselves on the issue of brexit. it does, labour certainly with their plan of tearing up certainly with their plan of tearing up what the tories said. i was a strong remain person, but it is not helpful for the country to be all over the place. but then we come together, after the election. we are... we up putting the wind of negotiation, we are making it a lot smaller —— we are. the people we are negotiating against, or with, what are we telling them? it is so clear that we are all over the place. this is not easy for labour, because in many of their constituencies, people are pro— brexit. we have to safeguard workers rights and... this is more about the negotiations, with the conservatives. it is all or nothing, we are sti