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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Anarchy in the U.K.

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Just weeks into his role as prime minister, Boris Johnson has kicked the U.K.’s Brexit drama into high gear. It culminated yesterday in a vote that would force him to delay Britain’s EU exit until Jan. 31, 2020, unless Parliament (in an unlikely scenario) votes to approve a new deal or support a no-deal Brexit by Oct. 19. Johnson has responded by threatening to call a general election in hopes of regaining a governing majority. Is a general election the answer to this Brexit mess? Guest: Josh Keating, international editor at Slate. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Order, questions to the Prime Minister, Shavon Macdonough.

0:10.3

Over the last couple of days, my guilty pleasure has been tracking down video of British parliament

0:15.7

and watching it at my desk.

0:17.6

Watching as Prime Minister Boris Johnson gets up in front of fellow lawmakers and fights

0:22.8

for his job and for Brexit.

0:25.9

What this country needs is sensible, moderate, progressive, conservative government and to

0:32.5

take this country out of the EU on October 31st and that is what we are going to deliver.

0:41.4

On days like today, when you know that the parliament is going to just be doing its thing,

0:49.4

how do you prepare?

0:50.4

You just got your stream going, you've got a lot of snacks.

0:54.7

Josh Keating has been watching all this too.

0:59.1

He covers foreign affairs for Slate.

1:00.8

I got the parliament channel loaded up on YouTube so yeah, they're getting into it.

1:09.7

Yesterday was the first day the new Prime Minister took questions from members of parliament.

1:14.6

This is a weekly tradition.

1:17.0

Any member can weigh in, but Boris Johnson's political rival, Jeremy Corbyn, he had the

1:22.0

most at stake here.

1:23.8

His goal was to make Johnson look like a fool.

1:29.0

If the Prime Minister does to the country what he's done to his party in the past 24 hours,

1:38.4

I think a lot of people have a great deal to fear from his incompetence, his vacillation

1:44.6

and his refusal to publish known facts that are known to him about the effect of a no-deal

1:50.5

Brexit.

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