Brexit: Is It Oven Ready?
The Briefing Room
BBC
4.8 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
With just weeks to go till the Brexit transition period ends, David Aaronovitch and The Briefing Room team explore Britain’s readiness for 2021. What will it mean for you? What have supermarkets, airlines, businesses, ports and the government done to get ready – and will it be enough?
Producers: Serena Tarling, Kirsteen Knight, Sally Abrahams Editor: Jasper Corbett
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.8 | Welcome to the briefing room with me, David Aronovich. The briefing room is the mind chamber where you and I get to understand a big issue with the help of the top experts on the subject. |
| 0:17.2 | Usually, we take 28 minutes. Not this time. In a matter of days, Britain will be totally out of the EU. |
| 0:24.4 | So this week, in an hour-long special, we ask, Brexit, is it oven-ready yet? |
| 0:31.9 | The British people need to have their say on our membership of the EU. |
| 0:37.2 | Brexit means Brexit. |
| 0:39.9 | We would be perfectly okay if we weren't able to get an agreement, but I'm sure that we will. |
| 0:46.0 | The EU knows that we mean business. |
| 0:47.7 | They know that we are planning for a no-deal scenario. |
| 0:50.9 | What we want is a bespoke outcome. |
| 0:53.1 | We'll probably start with the best of Canada and the best |
| 0:56.3 | of Japan and the best of South Korea. Canada plus plus plus is well probably would be one way putting it. |
| 1:02.2 | If we crash out without a deal, the people who have leased are going to be hurt most. |
| 1:08.0 | If I voted to leave the European Union, would I rather stay in the EU or accept |
| 1:12.2 | the Chekker's proposal? For me, that's a bit of a no-brainer. We do want to withdraw the agreement, |
| 1:16.8 | but the backstop will have to change. The way to deliver Brexit and avoid a no-deal is to |
| 1:22.5 | focus all our energies and time on getting a revised deal. Let's get this thing done. |
| 1:27.8 | We've got an oven-ready deal, put it in the microwave. |
| 1:40.2 | The interminable and rather bad-tempered dance |
| 1:43.2 | that has been the Brexit process is about to come to an end. |
| 1:47.6 | The music will soon stop to reveal no deal or some fairly minimal deal starting in a matter of days. |
| 1:55.2 | There will be much shouting. |
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