Amanda Sloat on All Things Brexit
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On March 29, in approximately six weeks, the United Kingdom is scheduled to crash out of the European Union. As of the date of this podcast, there is no deal governing how that exit will work. To understand the stakes, Benjamin Wittes sat down last week in the new Jungle Studio with Amanda Sloat, a senior fellow at the Brookings Center for the United States and Europe, to talk about all things Brexit.
They talked about the thorny issue of the Northern Ireland border, Theresa May's delicate political position, and what might happen if March 29 arrives without a Brexit deal.
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| 0:33.0 | Certainly, Theresa May is not blameless and has made a series of bad decisions along the way. |
| 0:39.0 | One of the first bad decisions she made was by holding snap elections |
| 0:43.0 | within a year after she became prime minister. |
| 0:47.0 | David Cameron had called the referendum he resigned when he lost. |
| 0:50.0 | She became prime minister. |
| 0:52.0 | She decided before she started negotiations with the EU to have snap elections. |
| 0:56.0 | She thought she was going to win. |
| 0:58.0 | This would bolster her position. |
| 1:00.0 | And she ended up having a terrible result. |
| 1:02.0 | She lost the conservative party majority in parliament. |
| 1:06.0 | The UK is really a two party system. |
| 1:08.0 | I mean, you definitely have the conservative in the Labour Party as the majority parties. |
| 1:12.0 | The Labour Democrats with some decreasing influence, |
| 1:14.0 | Scottish National Party. |
| 1:16.0 | But what was quite striking about the result of Theresa May's election was that she had to go into coalition |
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