This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, January 30th, 2020.

I'm Caleb Brown.

It's not a done deal until all the deals are done, but Brexit is happening finally.

So how does Great Britain's departure from the European Union change myriad relationships

for both the EU and Britain?

Is there reason to believe more illiberal policies might emerge from a newly independent

Great Britain?

Cato's Ryan Bourne comments.

A lot of people thought even after this referendum went through that the way that Great Britain had behaved following

the referendum that this was just not going to happen. What changed recently that made

Brexit a more secure proposition?

Well that's right and this is the kind of third Brexit exit date that we've had and it looks like third times a charm.

When the UK originally voted to leave in the referendum after an extended period of time of

thinking about how the UK government would approach the negotiations.

They eventually triggered Article 50 in March 2017 and that gave two years for the EU and the UK to negotiate

what's described as a withdrawal agreement to kind of settle up on financial contributions outstanding from the UK,

decide what both sides wanted to do about citizens' rights in their countries,

and to think about the Irish border issue.

And the simple truth is that after that, both sides did negotiate a withdrawal agreement

under Prime Minister Theresa May, but it was completely unacceptable to Parliament, both to remain supporters

and the strongest supporters of Brexit.

It tried to compromise on what Brexit actually was, keep the UK very close to the European Union, and both sides rejected that, so it had no parliamentary

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