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And I'm Stephen.

And I'm Alva.

And on this episode of New Statesman podcast, we do a special roundup of 2020. So Stephen, if you had to pick a moment of the year in politics, what would it be and why?

So I'm actually going to cheat and go for a

non-moment which was the moment when we did not at the end of June as we would

have had to to get an extension seek an extension to the transition period for the Brexit negotiations.

Right, yeah, this was yes at a period when we were still unlocking, but in a period where anyone who looked at it sensibly knew that we would, while by that point you could go, okay,

actually we can say pretty safely than whether it's palliative treatments or a vaccine,

something will happen to me than this is not you know like an indefinite way of

living but broadly the situation we find ourselves in a time of recording where we are

either going to get a not particularly great deal I don't just mean that in terms of we will get a hard Brexit.

I mean, broadly, like, the cliff edge

does serve the European Union's interests

better than the United Kingdom's because they are larger. The economic shock is therefore more diffused and we have not been able to do, I'm not saying you could plan for it perfectly, but many This thing is if you buy into the government's arguing about the value of no deal that's negotiating technique, we should have extended the transition.

If you don't buy into that and you think it's a disaster, we should have extended the transition.

There's really no argument other than the government's fundamentally not serious about Brexit,

fundamentally not serious about the pandemic, and fundamentally not serious about any of its policy agenda,

which I would argue was in many ways the overarching story of like Horace Johnson

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