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🗓️ 8 June 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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With James Forsyth, Christopher Meyer, Toby Young, Freddy Gray and Kate Andrews. Presented by Isabel Hardman
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0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Barry Brothers and Rudd, sponsors of great conversation. |
0:09.2 | Welcome to The Spectator podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman. This week we'll be discussing what the first 100 days after Brexit could look like, whether Hillary Clinton's success is really a victory for feminism, and Toby Young's joy at following England in the Euro football championships. |
0:25.1 | So first up, if Britain votes out of the EU on June the 23rd, |
0:29.0 | what would the next 100 days be like? |
0:31.3 | The Prime Minister has famously predicted disastrous consequences, |
0:34.8 | saying Brexit would plant a bomb under the economy. |
0:39.6 | But what would life outside the EU mean for Britain? Writing on The Spectator this week, James Forsythe says a vote to leave would be the |
0:45.3 | most dramatic moment in British political history. So what can we expect? I'm joined now by |
0:50.8 | Christopher Mayer and James to discuss the UK's Brexit strategy. |
0:55.1 | So James, how much planning do you think David Cameron has actually done for the first 100 days after a vote for Brexit? |
1:02.1 | Well, very little. I think it is something he doesn't really want to think about. |
1:05.3 | But he would obviously be faced with several huge questions. |
1:07.8 | First of all, does he resign? |
1:09.3 | Now, I was talking to someone the other day who's |
1:11.4 | known Cameron since he first entered politics, and he thinks Cameron sends a public service is too |
1:15.3 | strong for him to resign, but that Cameron would know that he couldn't conduct the exit negotiations |
1:19.6 | for the public having rejected his renegotiation. So I think the most likely scenario is that |
1:23.9 | Cameron stays on as a kind of caretaker Prime Minister until the Tory conference |
1:28.5 | in October. But then the two things Cameron have to do between June the 24th and October |
1:33.3 | is he'd have to decide whether or not to invoke Article 50, the process for leaving the EU. |
1:37.5 | He has said repeatedly throughout his campaign he would evoke it immediately if Britain voted |
1:40.9 | to leave. I think in reality he probably wouldn't because the cabinet wouldn't |
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