didn't spreading and the rival workers party just didn't make spreading and the rival workers partyjust they were hoping there might be a close outcome. i guess we'll have to see. 147 million people in brazil and they voted for a far right government. we're not talking about centre—right. government. we're not talking about centre-right. but what's amazing, a few years ago, five or six years ago, brazil was held up as the great symbol of change. how change can come, lula was the president, all sorts of things were happening, i remember going to seminars at kings couege remember going to seminars at kings college and prestigious places like that and brazil was how the developing world, what used to be the third world, could come up. there are people out there who feel deprived. for them to go for a man like this, they must feel... it's been described as the least bad of the bunch. that says it all, doesn't it? politics generally i think, around the world, has got some strange elements at the moment. you know, somehow there's this populist mood that has captured a lot of countries and fee

the second world war and i say that because essentially the main party, the governing conservative partyjustn and it counted as something of a success that nobody walked out. but the reason why they did not is because they still have no plan and i think it is important to spell that out. there will be no deal on wednesday at the eu summit because the uk government is still negotiating with itself. we have the lines to show for those late nights in brussels! you did more of those late nights! moving on... we know there is usually a fudge at the end of this but what is perhaps concerning if you want to have a deal and some do not, what would be concerning is that you could think of a strategy where the prime minister would go right to the wire to force them to blink but they are saying on this fundamental issue of the backstop, we're not going to shift position. fundamental issue of the backstop, we're not going to shift positionlj we're not going to shift position.” just do not think and i may be wrong but i do not think that the eu is going to shift and here's why. to see it from their point