Brexit: deal or no deal?
The Briefing Room
BBC
4.8 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The EU has warned a trade deal with the UK now seems unlikely – is that just posturing to speed up negotiations or is ‘no deal’ now the most likely outcome? And how will Brexit affect you when the transition period ends – from the price of shopping, to pet passports and lorry parks, David Aaronovitch asks the experts:
Katya Adler – BBC Europe Editor John Peet - Political and Brexit Editor, The Economist Maddy Thimont Jack - Senior Researcher. The Institute for Government Professor Anand Mennon – Director of the UK in a Changing Europe.
Producers: Kirsteen Knight, Alex Lewis and Joe Kent Studio manager: James Beard Editor: Jasper Corbett.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.9 | Welcome to the briefing room with me, David Aronovich. |
| 0:10.2 | Something big and complicated is going on, |
| 0:12.8 | and you feel you'll never get your head round it. |
| 0:15.3 | Me too. |
| 0:16.5 | But give us 28 minutes and the top experts |
| 0:18.8 | in the virtual space that is the briefing room, |
| 0:21.5 | and we may be able to sort it out. |
| 0:23.8 | This week, Brexit. |
| 0:26.1 | It's almost upon us. |
| 0:27.6 | Where have we got to? |
| 0:35.6 | All through the pandemic, the Brexit clock has been running. |
| 0:42.3 | As the weeks and months of lockdown have passed, British and EU negotiators have been |
| 0:47.3 | talking, sometimes virtually, sometimes physically, sometimes with urgency, sometimes not. Sometimes the mood has been encouraging. Usually, |
| 0:58.2 | it hasn't. And now the time has just about run out. So what have we missed while we've been |
| 1:08.4 | preoccupied by the extraordinary exigencies of the pandemic? |
| 1:13.2 | And where are we almost imminently headed? |
| 1:16.2 | Step inside the briefing room and together we'll find out. |
| 1:22.9 | There was the withdrawal agreement, the political declaration. |
| 1:26.2 | There had been seven rounds of talks and intensified talks. |
| 1:29.9 | So where have we actually got up to? |
| 1:32.6 | Time to call in Katsya Adler, the BBC's Europe editor. |
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