and i'm joined now by megan wright she's professor of leadership and dialogue at holt international business school professor writes the u.k. seems to be heading toward a no deal breaker despite numbers like these and we'll hear more talk of a culture of fear at 10 downing street in terms of leadership style you focus on communication within businesses do you see a problem in the british government. well we've had headlines over the last couple of days that have included the chancellor as media advisor being escorted out from downing street by an armed police officer we have conservative and he's threatened with the sack if they go against the government tomorrow now my research is in the business context and i look at choices that we have around speaking up or staying silent and one of the questions i ask in open eyes ations in my research is what happens when you speak up round here and recently i had one organization the response to that question was you just sit there now i know so with that response would be the same in british politics at the moment but if it would be then there's quite serio