Brexit Blues
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 22 June 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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The failure of the Conservative Party to gain a parliamentary majority in the UK general election held earlier this month has been seen as a repudiation of Prime Minister Theresa May and her plan for the British withdrawal from the European Union. Sam Knight joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how England is coping with its strains of populism and nationalism, and how the debate over Brexit is changing.
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| 1:16.8 | politics. It's Thursday, June 22nd. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:23.4 | Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the Brexit referendum, when Great Britain voted to withdraw from the European Union. |
| 1:30.3 | The vote triggered the resignation of David Cameron and the appointment of Theresa May as Prime Minister. |
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