Politics entered a holding pattern this week as MPs mulled how they could get their favourite Brexit or stop it completely.

Theresa May pretended to listen to them, Jeremy Corbyn tried his best to be present but not involved and Jacob Rees Mogg got his white flag at the ready.

We discuss all this and more, and we ask co-editor of Civil Service World magazine Jess Bowie: Is Whitehall really trying to thwart Brexit? She spoke to new Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill to find out.