Brexit deal or no deal?
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Boris Johnson's government is bringing in a new law — the internal market bill — that threatens to undermine the UK's withdrawal agreement with the EU. Will this push negotiations for a trade deal between the UK and EU even closer to collapse? Plus, coronavirus is spreading rapidly once more in Britain and, in response, new measures to limit gatherings are to be introduced. But will they be enough to stop the UK heading towards a second national lockdown?
Presented by Sebastian Payne, with Peter Foster, George Parker, Sarah Neville and Clive Cookson. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Josh de la Mare. The sound engineer is Breen Turner and the editor Liam Nolan. Music by Metaphor Music.
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| 0:00.0 | Brexit is back and making more waves than ever in Westminster as the Johnson |
| 0:06.0 | government admitted its latest plans would involve breaking international |
| 0:10.2 | law. I would say to my audible friend that yes this does break international law in a very specific and limited way |
| 0:18.6 | Welcome to Payne's politics your essential insider guide to what's happening in British politics from the Financial Times, with me Sebastian Payne. |
| 0:28.0 | In this episode, I'll be discussing the almighty row over new legislation that will undermine the UK's withdrawal agreement |
| 0:35.6 | with the EU as we heard from Minister Brandon Lewis at the top of the show and whether |
| 0:40.6 | negotiations for a trade deal are on the verge of collapse |
| 0:43.8 | with political editor George Parker and public policy editor Peter Foster. |
| 0:48.3 | And later I'll be looking at the latest coronavirus restrictions, why the government is limiting |
| 0:55.0 | gatherings to groups of six and whether the UK is heading for a second lockdown with |
| 1:00.0 | health editor Sarah Neville and Science Editor Clive Cookson. |
| 1:04.6 | George and Peter, welcome back. |
| 1:06.5 | Hi, Seth. |
| 1:07.5 | Good to see you, sir. |
| 1:10.4 | Well, it's been quite a busy week reporting for all three of us on Brexit, lawyers resigning the internal market bill. |
| 1:17.0 | Before we get into all the ructions, I just wanted to ask you how the experience was. |
| 1:22.0 | Peter, you at the forefront of this last weekend when you did the first big story |
| 1:26.0 | on what the government was proposing in that bill. |
| 1:28.5 | What was the reporting experience like? |
| 1:31.2 | It was vitigious, Sebastian. |
| 1:33.2 | When someone tells you that the British government's |
| 1:35.1 | planning to essentially renege on elements of a treaty it |
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