Beyond Brexit S1E22 - What has already changed for good

Beyond Brexit

PwC UK

Government, News

4.8 • 36 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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As we approach the date of the UK leaving the EU, Emily Khan presses pause on the political debate and takes stock of what has already changed, and what that means for government, business and us all.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the latest in our series of Beyond Brexit podcasts.
0:07.0	I'm Emily Kahn. Well, here we are at the end of March 2019, a date that's been clear in our site since Article 50 was triggered two years ago.
0:16.0	Now, as engrossed as we all are with the political twists and turns, I'd like to take the opportunity in this episode to pause and take stock and look at Brexit from a bit of a different angle.
0:27.8	I'm joined today by my colleague Matt Alabaster, partner in our strategy and practice, who spends most days helping global businesses to find their strategies for growth and entering new markets.
0:38.5	He's also our relationship partner for the Department for International Trade.
0:42.2	You could say a champion of UK PLC.
0:45.8	Matt has been leading some thinking we're doing here about life beyond Brexit, as it were,
0:51.0	and the things that Brexit or no Brexit deal deal or no deal, are already changing.
0:56.7	Matt, thank you for joining me.
0:58.1	Emily, it's a pleasure to be here.
0:59.9	So, start us off.
1:01.5	Give us a taste of the kind of changes that you've got front of mind.
1:05.6	Well, for starters, I completely agree with what you said at the beginning.
1:09.4	It is all too easy, isn't it, at the moment, to get subsumed with the hullabaloo that's going on in Westminster about how and when the UK will be exiting the European Union. So it's refreshing to think a little bit longer term.
1:22.4	Yeah, absolutely. I have a sense that if you tune out some of the noise, you'll see that the business environment is changing and has changed since the Brexit process began.
1:33.3	More than three years of debate in the media, around the board table, probably around the dinner table, has changed some aspects of the business world for good.
1:43.3	Okay. The most obvious of these business world for good. Okay.
1:45.0	The most obvious of these would probably be trade.
1:48.0	Trade exports, the rules that govern that and the importance of exports to the wealth of the
1:54.0	UK have burst into our collective consciousness like never before.
1:58.0	The UK has been running a trade deficit for over 20 years, but until the referendum, it
2:03.2	never got mainstream attention.
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