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BBC Today programme: Brexit deadline
"Johnson is introducing this bill to give himself a firm deadline, but he has a big majority and he could easily introduce a later bill...you could call it domestic virtue signalling" Sam Lowe, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform told BBC Today programme.