Brexit and by-elections
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Six years after the UK voted to leave the EU, Adam and Victoria Derbyshire speak to one of Brexit’s orchestrators, Nigel Farage. The former politician gives his views on whether it’s been a success.
Chris Mason and pollster Chris Curtis from Opinium also join to speak about what the results of the by-elections in Wakefield and in Tiverton and Honiton might mean.
This edition of Newscast was made by Chris Flynn. The assistant editor was Alison Gee. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:30.0 | The Conservative Party co-chair Oliver Dowden has resigned saying that somebody has to take responsibility, |
| 0:40.8 | which is already being interpreted as a bit of a dig at Boris Johnson, who many people |
| 0:47.4 | say hasn't taken responsibility because he said to reporters on that trip to Rwanda for the |
| 0:53.8 | Commonwealth Heads of Government summit that the idea of him quitting if he lost these |
| 0:59.1 | by-elections was quote crazy, unquote. Now I have to say amongst the Conservative and the |
| 1:06.4 | political class in general, these results were kind of predicted and so people had already taken |
| 1:14.4 | them into account and behaved accordingly and that meant that oh actually didn't feel like |
| 1:20.0 | if anything was going to happen. I just wonder though if there will be some events now. So for example, |
| 1:27.1 | Oliver Dowden's resignation, I don't think anyone had priced that in in terms of what would happen |
| 1:33.6 | and so maybe the outcome of this will be a little bit more unpredictable than the one that people |
| 1:39.8 | were suggesting beforehand. Anyway, we recorded the latest episode of newscast last night on Thursday |
| 1:48.0 | night and before the polls closed so of course we couldn't really talk about the campaigns in |
| 1:53.6 | particular but we could talk about the political situation in general and so that analysis still |
| 1:58.3 | stands this morning and hope you enjoy this episode of newscast. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 2:05.0 | Nobody said to me this is an event that is against the rules. Be on the back better. Blah blah blah |
| 2:10.8 | green economy. Blah blah blah. I've absolutely apologised for using the word scorn. |
| 2:16.3 | I am not enough. Only enough it was tractors that I was looking at. This is not the Russian people's war. |
| 2:24.1 | I am virtually out of tools to help people now. Hello it's Adam in the studio. Hello it's Victoria |
| 2:32.7 | in the studio. And to Mark I wouldn't say celebrate because some people will be commiserating |
| 2:37.5 | six years since the vote to leave the EU because it was six years ago today. It's Nigel Farage. |
| 2:42.4 | Hello. Very good to be here. I don't think anyone is celebrating really. It's funny. It's |
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