former home secretary amber rudd, shadow foreign secretary amber rudd, shadow foreign secretary emily thornburyaph's. .. some thought that all—female panel smacked of political correctness. adam thought it was a show worth watching but went on, imagine a similarly heavyweight panel. the bbc would have ensured the other contributing panel member was a woman. others, though, were scathing about complaints that this was a stunt. another tweeter... to discuss all that i am joined by the bbc‘s editor of like political programmes. thank you for coming. the all woman live up you for coming. the all woman live up —— line—up on the show got a lot of attention. was it a bit of a stunt? no. in the summeri was it a bit of a stunt? no. in the summer i started to think about who we would like on that first show. the first person who came to my mind was amber but because she had not done much media since you left the home office and then i started thinking about who would be a good labour counterpart that would go well with her and i thought emily thornbury was probably one of the rising stars ofjeremy corbyn

we heard from emily thornbury. emily thornbury worried about being seen to betray many of the labour supporters who voted for brexit especially in areas of the midlands —— labour. one labour mp said it would mean the loss of dozens said it would mean the loss of d oze ns of said it would mean the loss of dozens of labour mps. this will all be played out before christmas. thanks forjoining us. theresa may is on board a plane bound for new york where she is going to join the united nations general assembly. we saw president trump there are a few moments ago. she has sent a message from this plane, saying that no brexit deal is still better than a bad deal. that is at odds with what the shadow home secretary keir starmer said. in his view the chequers deal would not get past him and other labour mps because it doesn‘t pass the six tests labour are setting for a brexit deal regarding the economic consequences for the uk. but theresa may sticking to what she has always said, no brexit deal is better than a bad deal. an