paul tang, dan dalton, thank you.ess, what do you mean, you haven't heard of it, the world rolls off the tongue of mps as readily as brexit. it's all about choosing europe's top bureaucrat. when jean—claude juncker comes here, he sits here, he got his job through the spitzenkandidat will lead candidate system which says the european president to be the person put forward by the political grouping that does best of the european parliament elections. in 2014 and that was the centre—right eep, juncker was their man and this is why this is now his chair. it was opposed at the time by david cameron, who said the choice should belong to leaders alone. no meps say they would reject anyone who was not a spitzenkandidat. the eep group will not accept any candidate for the future commission president who was not presented during the campaign as lead candidate of the democratic party and can bring together a qualified majority of the new elected european parliament. together a qualified majority of the new elected european parli

we‘ve got you back, can you still hear me, paul tang? yeah, ican can you still hear me, paul tang?he eu 27, but does michel barnier speak for the netherlands in terms of the draft eu text? ca n netherlands in terms of the draft eu text? can we really imagine a state where the netherlands would want to put up barriers to trade with the uk? they don‘t want to make it more difficult, do they? there will be different in that they have been excluded by the british government. i expect there be differences but we don‘t see a differences but we don‘t see a difference is it you cannot cherry pick. that is the fear that keeps the eu 27 together. but when there are real choices on the table, i expect there will be some kind of deficient between the eu 27. listening they‘re to dan sultan, what is your impression of this seemingly confusion over whether britain is going to remain in the customs union? it was made clear that we would be leaving the single market and the customs union. what is she going to do? stowing —— going and briefing against hammond and others before she has a cabinet cons