Brexit: What Have We Learned?
The Briefing Room
BBC
4.8 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It's nearly been a year since Brexit, so what have the costs and gains been so far, what's yet to be sorted out, and how has our relationship with our European neighbours changed?
Joining David Aaronovitch in The Briefing Room are:
Maddy Thimont Jack, associate director on the Institute for Government's Brexit team
Sam McBride, Northern Ireland editor of the Belfast Telegraph & Sunday Independent
Katya Adler, BBC Europe Editor
Peter Foster, editor of the Financial Times newsletter 'Britain After Brexit'.
Anand Menon, director at UK in a Changing Europe
Producers: Rosamund Jones, Kirsteen Knight, Ben Carter and Ben Henderson Sound Engineer: Neil Churchill Production Co-ordinators Sophie Hill and Siobhan Reed Editor: Richard Vadon
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.9 | Welcome to the briefing room with me, David Aronovich. |
| 0:08.8 | The briefing room is the metaversal entity, which allows you and I to understand a big issue |
| 0:13.9 | with the help of the top experts on the subject in just 28 minutes. |
| 0:18.6 | This week, Brexit. |
| 0:20.6 | How's it gone? |
| 0:22.0 | And how's it going? |
| 0:24.9 | This month, it's been a year since the UK left the EU. |
| 0:29.6 | Never mind the shoulds and shouldn'ts, |
| 0:31.6 | what does the balance sheet of the last 12 months tell us |
| 0:34.6 | and projecting forward, what should we expect? Step inside the briefing |
| 0:39.2 | room and together we'll find out. First, we may have fully left the EU a year back, but |
| 0:48.2 | still, not everything is settled. In recent days, new rules and regulations have come into |
| 0:53.2 | force. |
| 1:00.0 | The briefing room's Ben Carter talked to Maddie Tymont Jack from the Institute for Government's Brexit team. |
| 1:06.2 | From the beginning of this year, all goods that are imported into Great Britain from the EU will now be required to be accompanied with full customs declarations up until now they |
| 1:12.2 | weren't needed to be lodged at the same time as the import of the good. And then all goods |
| 1:16.6 | that are of plant or animal origin are required to have a pre-notification certificate when they |
| 1:23.1 | are imported into Great Britain from the EU. And the new trading arrangements with the EU kicked in last January, but the government |
| 1:29.6 | decided to delay full paperwork and checks until now. Why? |
| 1:34.1 | Partly because of the COVID situation last January, and they were concerned that there would |
| 1:38.5 | be too much disruption if they introduced full checks, but also because they were worried that |
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