87: Brexit: what is to be done?
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🗓️ 17 November 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The cabinet has just had a long detailed and impassioned debate on the draft |
| 0:06.0 | withdrawal agreement and the outline political declaration. The choices before us |
| 0:10.5 | were difficult, particularly in relation to the Northern Ireland backstop. |
| 0:15.0 | But the collective decision of cabinet was that the government should agree the draft withdrawal agreement and the Outline Political Declaration. |
| 0:24.7 | Theresa May has returned from Brussels with an EU withdrawal agreement that has angered |
| 0:28.9 | levers and remainers alike. |
| 0:31.2 | It includes a backstop that could keep us in the customs union and bound to EU rules indefinitely. |
| 0:37.3 | It is not just remain by another name, it is worse. |
| 0:41.2 | We would be bound by EU rules with no say over how they are made. |
| 0:45.0 | Ministers have resigned and MPs have started calling for May's resignation. |
| 0:50.0 | Brexit is now at a crossroads. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm Fraser Myers and in this spike podcast special, |
| 0:56.0 | I'll be asking three prominent Brexiteers, |
| 0:59.0 | Dan Hanen, Kate Hoi, and Brendan O'Neill. |
| 1:02.0 | What's wrong with May's deal? |
| 1:04.0 | How did we get here? |
| 1:06.0 | And what happens next? Eurocrats are incredulous that Britain has been prepared to sign up to this. |
| 1:19.0 | We will be half in and half out. |
| 1:23.3 | Brexit is in serious, serious trouble. |
| 1:28.8 | First of all, I spoke to Dan Hanen and Strasbourg over Skype. |
| 1:32.4 | Yeah, hello. Dan Hanen and Strasbourg over Skype. |
| 1:33.0 | Oh yeah, hello, it's Dan Hanen. |
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