Murnaghan podcast, 23rd October 2016

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On this week’s episode – The battle for Mosul is now in its seventh day and the Iraqi army says around 50 villages have been liberated from ISIS militants. But has a plan been made for what happens after the fight for the city is over? I put this to Rory Stewart, Minister of State at the Department for International Development. After years of negotiations, talks of Canada’s trade-deal with the EU broke down on Friday. Due to be signed next week and with all 28 member states in support of the agreement talks fell through as Belgium’s Wallonia region rejected the deal. The Canadian trade minister and president of the European Parliament say they hope it can still be signed. To discuss the implications of this impasse we hear from the former Attorney General Dominic Grieve, the head of Europe and trade policy at the Institute of Directors, Allie Renison and Dr Gerard Lyons, the co chair of economists for Brexit. The so-called jungle camp in Calais is due to close this week and the UK government is hurrying to fulfil its promise to take in unaccompanied minors. We hear from Stella Creasy, MP for Walthamstow, who is leading the fight to bring the children of Calais to Britain. Once again, the race to discover who will be the next leader of UKIP is underway, we speak to the leadership hopeful Raheem Kassam who is being backed by the party donor, Arron Banks. And finally, as ever, we have a team of top political pundits to discuss this week's news - political columnist Steve Richards, the political editor of the Sun David Wooding and Sky’s own senior political correspondent Beth Rigby. All on this week's Murnaghan podcast!