Brexit and Beyond: Last Brexmas, I gave you my deal

The UK in a Changing Europe Podcast

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4.3 • 105 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Nearly a year on from the end of the Brexit transition period, Jill Rutter, James Kane, Jess Sargeant and Joe Marshall from the IfG’s Brexit team and UK in a Changing Europe’s Professor Anand Menon, look back at how the UK is adjusting to life outside the EU and what to look out for in the UK-EU relationship in the year ahead. The Northern Ireland Protocol, Anglo-French fishing disputes, the Brexit opportunities agenda and the UK’s post-Brexit trade deals are just some of the items on the festive menu in this special joint podcast between the Institute for Government and the UK in a Changing Europe. Audio Production by Candice McKenzie

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and happy Christmas. I'm Jill Rutter. I'm a senior fellow at the Institute for Government
0:21.2	and a Senior Research Fellow at UK and a Changing Europe. So I'm absolutely delighted to be
0:26.5	hosting the first ever joint podcast between IFG and UK ICE to bring you our joint assessment
0:33.3	of where we are on Brexit. You surely didn't want two Brexit podcasts to highlight your run-up to Christmas.
0:41.8	Not sure whether this is the Christmas present you didn't really know you wanted
0:45.2	or the think tank equivalent of the World War I Christmas Truce football match,
0:49.9	but IFG Live, it's Brexit and Beyond for one night only.
0:56.5	So I'm delighted to be joined by four of the nation's top Brexit watchers. From the Institute for Government, the three Jays,
1:02.5	Joe Marshall, Jess Sargent and James Kane. Only one from UK and a changing Europe, but
1:08.5	what a one, our very own star of news quiz, the rock star
1:11.7	professor himself, waiting for the call from have I got news for you? It's the ubiquitous Professor
1:17.3	Anand Menon. Let's get going. We had the joint report Christmas, 2017. We had the meaningful vote
1:26.1	Christmas, 2018. We had the election and withdrawal agreement Christmas,
1:31.8	2019. And who cannot forget Christmas Eve 2020, the trade and cooperation agreement being
1:39.3	unveiled on Christmas Eve and business given a week to get ready, a week that they were all planning to
1:45.8	get all their Brexit actions into gear. So, Jess, the 64 million euro question, can we bank on a
1:55.8	Brexit-free Christmas to let us all get on with tucking into our turkey or nut roast delete to taste.
2:05.3	So I think this year we will be getting a Brexit-free Christmas.
2:09.7	Unlike last year, where I was trying to make a beef Wellington on Christmas Eve and hoping
2:13.2	that the TCA text didn't drop at a crucial time, I think Brexit Watchers will be getting a well-deserved
2:19.5	break. The only thing that could happen is potentially on the Northern Ireland Protocol. We
2:23.7	obviously know that there are ongoing discussions between the UK and the EU about potential changes.
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