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New Centrist Party Change UK - The Independent Group have launched their election campaign for the European Parliament. It's not going great with candidates suspended and marketing blunders galore. Hosted by James Fox w/ Alex Maskill

On today's podcast we discuss the use of vaginal mesh operations as new guidelines are issued. Also, will Brexit happen next week? We take a look at the latest move to postpone the UK's EU departure.

Alex Barker, Brussels bureau chief of the Financial Times, talks to Paul Adamson about the heated negotiations about to start about the UK's EU budget liabilities.

Dan Damon spoke to The Financial Times' political editor, George Parker about the significance of Sir Ivan Rogers' resignation. (Photo: The UK's ambassador to the EU, Sir Ivan Rogers. Credit: Reuters)

Effects to the United States of the UK's EU referendum - BREXIT - are discussed in terms of jobs, investments and the US real estate market in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and the mid-west.

As opinion polls reveal that half the British population would vote in favour of withdrawal from the European Union, it seems the political class is catching up with public opinion when it comes to the EU. While perhaps just dozens of MPs are publicly calling for a referendum on the UK's EU membership, behind closed doors there are many more closet secessionists: at least 40 per cent of Conservative MPs according to one party insider. "In public I call for renegotiation of the Lisbon treaty. In private I argue for complete withdrawal from the European Union. And there are plenty of others like me," says one anonymous sceptic. Edward Stourton asks whether the crisis in the eurozone has emboldened more politicians to speak frankly on their attitudes towards EU membership and talks to supporters of withdrawal from both the left and right wings of British politics. Producer: Hannah Barnes.