A losing battle: How Brexit fallout tore Parliament apart

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Brexit is done — insofar as it ever will be. But the Brexit we got was not the one most Britons wanted. Years of bad-tempered Parliamentary battling only came to an end when Boris Johnson purged his MPs and stopped the Commons from sitting, then called a general election. Ros Taylor is joined by Meg Russell and Lisa James, authors of The Parliamentary Battle over Brexit, to talk about the damage done, the legacy of those years — and whether we should ever have a referendum again. “These terms of hard Brexit and soft Brexit only really come around after the referendum.” – Lisa James “So much of the story of Brexit is what’s going on with the Conservative Party over these years.” – Lisa James www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Ros Taylor. Assistant Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: Jade Bailey. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:15.0	But what did Brexit do to us?
1:17.0	How did it polarise us?
1:18.0	How did it change Parliament?
1:20.0	Can we understand what went wrong
1:22.0	and how to stop it happening again?
1:24.0	Joining me are two experts on the long saga of Brexit and Parliament,
1:28.0	whose book about it has just come out.
1:30.0	Meg Russell and Lisa James both of the Constitution unit at University College London.
1:35.2	Welcome to the bunker.
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