so, who better than jill rutter and anand menon? hello, both. all, we know that mps have decided theresa may has to come back to the commons if she loses next tuesday's vote. what's the wider significance of that, of her having to come back in days rather than weeks? it really means that she needs to be working now on what her strategy is for if she loses, or as most people expect, when she loses next week. so, rather than have the luxury, though would it really have existed because she would have had to make a statement pretty quickly, and be facing pmqs the next day, she'll have to actually know what she wants to do next. so, there's some doubts about how quickly the commons gets to vote on this, and that will need to be sorted out. it also reduces the amount of time she might have thought she'd have to go back to brussels and ask for some extra concessions. so, that would be pretty emergency phone call to mrjuncker and mr tusk to say, "i need this to be able to get it over the line." so, she's compressed that window, that's the real thing. th

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i'll be talking to anand menon from the uk in a changing europe, and jill rutter from the institute fori'm afraid the government itself is indulging in fantasy. isn't it time that the government set out a realistic basis for this debate? as the former crown secretary for the treasury said the other day, there is no chance of us at all for concluding a trade deal with the eu by 2020. very little chance of doing so by 2022. a far more realistic prospect is that we might do so in the mid 20205. can we not conduct this debate on the basis of reality rather than continued fantasy? spending a lot of time talking about the risks of the backstop but my constituents are concerned about the risk to the jobs if they work in the sectors that aren't covered by the wto. they are concerned about the risk to citizens' rights if maybe they are married to an eu citizen. they are worried about risk to security and all of these issues are covered by the implementation period and the breathing space of the little agreement. does the secretary of state agree we focus the debate on the benefits of the agreeme