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Political Fix

Boris Johnson meets EU leaders, and the latest no-deal warnings

Political Fix

Financial Times

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The prime minister set off on his first visit to world leaders, meeting Angela Merkel in Germany and Emmanuel Macron in France. What was his Brexit message - and has anything changed? Plus, we discuss the leak of the Operation Yellowhammer document. Presented by Sebastian Payne with James Blitz, Miranda Green and Robert Shrimsley. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Salome Pkhaladze  

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Welcome to FT Politics, a weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster from the Financial Times.

0:44.1

I'm Sebastian Payne. In this episode we'll be discussing Boris Johnson's Brexit jaunt around Europe.

0:50.4

The Prime Minister went off to Berlin, Paris and is soon heading to the G7 for his debut as a world

0:56.0

statesman. What was his Brexit message? Did he manage to change anything? And are we back to exactly

1:01.5

where we were before?

1:02.8

I'm delighted to be joined by our Whitehall editor James Blitz, columnist Robert Shrimsley,

1:07.3

and deputy opinion editor Miranda Green.

1:09.8

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1:17.4

To mark his first month as Prime Minister,

1:19.8

Boris Johnson did his first visits with other world leaders.

1:24.0

Before that he penned a comprehensive four-page letter to Donald Tusk,

1:28.0

president of the European Council, to set out why he doesn't like the Irish border backstop and some of the ideas about what could

1:34.6

replace it. That set the tone before he went off to Berlin to receive some warm words from

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