Brexit talks continue ahead of likely deal

Business Daily

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🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Talks between the UK and the EU on a post-Brexit trade agreement continued during the night, but a deal is expected to be unveiled on Thursday. Negotiators in Brussels are said to be trying to finalise details on fishing quotas, which have proved an obstacle to an agreement during months of talks. On the programme we'll hear from Sally Jones, Brexit lead at Ernst and Young, Charles Grant at the Centre for European Reform, as well as the BBC's Political Correspondent Rob Watson.

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0:00.0	Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service.
0:05.9	Coming up, a Brexit deal at last.
0:08.7	Those are the reports coming from both London and Brussels today.
0:12.9	UK importers and traders are holding their breath.
0:16.4	That would just be the best Christmas for us ever really,
0:19.3	because obviously, as you can imagine spent the
0:21.1	last six months trying to sort of work out what we're going to do and if we get a deal it will be
0:26.4	the best news ever. The fact that we might get a deal will actually allow us then to be able to
0:30.6	understand the rules, start trading again, build up confidence and that means the company
0:35.2	start investing again. But is there a Brexit breakthrough?
0:39.1	We bring you the latest on Business Daily from the BBC.
0:45.5	Well, the reports are that a deal may have been struck or maybe about to be struck.
0:50.7	We understand today that just days ahead of the year-end deadline, there has been
0:56.2	a deal agreed between the European Union, the world's largest free trading area, and the UK,
1:01.6	which of course voted back in 2016, to leave the EU. So, is there an imminent deal? That is what
1:08.9	we've been hearing. The BBC's political correspondent,
1:11.4	Rob Watson, is with us. What is the latest? What is the schedule? What do we know, Rob?
1:17.2	I think after four and a half years, almost to the date since the referendum, Ed, I think we do
1:23.4	know where we're going, and that is that there is going to be a deal between the European Union
1:28.0	and the UK, setting out their future trade and, to some extent, security relationship for the
1:33.5	next few years or so, and that it should be announced fairly imminently. Yeah, I mean, since,
1:39.5	it's been since I think yesterday afternoon, isn't it, that the wires have been awash with rumours around
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