Brexit mandates, civil service wars, the Budget and Labour leadership

Political Fix

Financial Times

News, Politics, News & Politics

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🗓️ 29 February 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The first part of our first live podcast from Bracken House. We discuss the UK and EU’s mandates for the negotiations and whether the talks could collapse before they’ve even begun, Priti Patel’s rows with civil servants, what Rishi Sunak will do in his first Budget and how Keir Starmer will lead the Labour party. Presented by Sebastian Payne with George Parker, Robert Shrimsley, Miranda Green and Jim Pickard. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Jack Denton

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0:00.0	Welcome to F.T. Politics, a weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster from the Financial Times.
0:11.6	I'm Sebastian Payne. This week's episode is
0:14.3	brought to you live from Bracken House where we're joined by a conference room
0:18.3	full of you, podcast listeners. We'll be taking questions from our audience as well as diving into all the topics that are on our mind a real tour through everything in the UK politics this week.
0:29.0	We'll be looking at the Battle of the Brexit Mandates, whether the trade talks are doomed to fail
0:34.6	before they've even begun. Plus we'll be discussing rows in the home office
0:38.9	between the civil service, what might be in the upcoming budget, and the state of the Labour leadership race.
0:45.0	Our panel for this week's podcast is our top team.
0:48.0	Political editor George Parker, Chief Political Correspondent Jim Picard, Deputy Péette, Miranda Green, and Colin
0:53.6	Robert Shrimsley. If you like, you can all give them a clap.
0:56.0	Thank you all for joining in the room on your headphones and if you find
1:06.7	yourself liking this episode of FT Politics Podcast thank you for coming then do
1:10.9	subscribe through all the usual channels to receive it every Saturday morning.
1:14.3	We also, as you know, appreciate a nice review.
1:17.2	So let's begin with Brexit.
1:19.4	This week, the UK and the EU have released their negotiating mandate.
1:23.2	And we've got a story which by time you listen to this podcast will have been released.
1:27.4	Boris is ripping up the UK's political declaration.
1:31.2	George Parker, can you begin and explain what the Prime Minister is
1:34.3	doing with regards to trying to seek a Brexit trade deal? Well he's
1:38.9	publishing his negotiating mandate so this is the objectives that Britain has for
1:42.4	the trade talks and we all know
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