A difficult week of Brexit and dealing with 'fake news'
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do you hear that? |
| 0:05.0 | It might sound like nothing to you, |
| 0:07.0 | but it's actually the sound of nuclear, wind and solar energy. |
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| 0:24.8 | zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. Welcome to F.T. Politics, a weekly podcast on British politics from the Financial Times. |
| 0:41.6 | I'm Sebastian Payne and in this |
| 0:43.6 | week's episode we'll be discussing the latest shenanigans at whether the |
| 0:46.9 | government has a Brexit plan and where the fake news online is |
| 0:50.0 | disrupting our democracy. I'm delighted to be joined by George Parker, the |
| 0:54.3 | F.T.'s political columnist Janan Ganesh, Robert Trimley who is managing |
| 0:58.8 | editor of F.T.com, media correspond David Blood, and Renee Kaplan, who's the's the EFT's head of audience engagement. |
| 1:05.1 | Thank you all for joining. |
| 1:06.9 | So it's been another busy week in the world of Brexit. |
| 1:10.4 | It began with a leaked report from Deloitte, suggesting that the government is in disarray over its plans to leave the EU, |
| 1:16.0 | Cabinet Ministers are split, and another 30,000 staff apparent will be needed to make Brexit work. |
| 1:22.0 | The government said it didn't recognize anything to do with this |
| 1:24.5 | report. Then we had the FT report in the EU looking to land Britain with a 60 billion |
| 1:29.5 | bill for leaving the EU and the House of Lords is still looking problematic for |
| 1:34.0 | passing that crucial Article 50 legislation if the government loses that Supreme |
| 1:38.4 | Court case. There's a lot going on and once again Westminster is scratching its head and asking does |
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