Brexit: The Easy Guide
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
As the UK's proposed exit from the EU nears, things are getting complicated in the British parliament. We explain the options for Theresa May and MPs with the help of John Rentoul, chief political commentator for the Independent, Jonathan Portes, economics professor at King's College London, and Jill Rutter, programme director at the Institute for Government.
Producer: Laurence Knight
(Photo: Protesters outside the UK parliament in London, Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service, where I've come down the road today, |
| 0:06.8 | just a couple of kilometres from our regular studio to Westminster, as the politics of Britain's EU exit reaches fever pitch. |
| 0:16.3 | This is simply a piece of paper full of meaningless waffle. |
| 0:20.7 | When will she realise that the only way out of this crisis |
| 0:23.1 | is going to be to put this back to the British people in a people's vote? |
| 0:27.6 | We should junk forthwith the backstop, |
| 0:31.2 | which makes a complete nonsense of Brexit. |
| 0:34.0 | The Prime Minister has managed to negotiate an agreement where we, quote, explore the possibility of Brexit. The Prime Minister has managed and negotiate an agreement where we |
| 0:37.5 | quote, explore the |
| 0:39.5 | possibility of cooperation. |
| 0:42.2 | And that is pathetically weak. |
| 0:45.1 | Prime Minister. |
| 0:47.0 | It is a draft treaty that means that we will leave |
| 0:49.4 | the EU in a smooth and orderly way |
| 0:51.6 | on the 29th of March 2019. |
| 0:56.3 | Yes, deal or no deal or no Brexit at all. |
| 0:59.8 | Those are the choices as Parliament prepares to vote on the Prime Minister's plan. |
| 1:05.4 | So today I've come to Westminster right outside the mighty imposing edifice of the House of Commons, British Parliament, |
| 1:13.1 | because these are really pretty extraordinary times in UK politics. |
| 1:17.7 | As you can hear, behind me, there are some demonstrators waving their pro-European flags, |
| 1:22.2 | banging some drums, protesting the Brexit that they don't want to see. |
| 1:27.0 | But the British Prime Minister Theresa May has a |
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