Brexit: what just happened?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The prime minister's decision to suspend parliament prompted an angry backlash from MPs and opponents of a no-deal Brexit. It sparked protests across the country, a legal challenge and a petition with – at the time of writing - around one and a half million signatures. The government claims the five-week suspension in September and October will still allow time for MPs to debate Brexit. It’s another of those moments in the Brexit saga, and there seem to have been loads of them, that leaves people feeling pretty confused. When the news broke the Beyond Today team started getting messages from friends and family asking what on earth is going on?! People think that as we work at the BBC and it’s our job to follow Brexit, we have the answers. But it’s all become so complicated that honestly, we’re not sure anymore. So we compiled the questions we were sent, added some of our own, and put them to Chris Morris from the BBC’s Reality Check team. Producer: Duncan Barber Mixed by Andy Mills Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.3	Hello, you're listening to Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,
0:10.0	where every weekday we ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today, what just happened with Brexit?
0:25.0	I'm Harriet Noble, one of the Beyond Today producers, and while Matthew is away I'm presenting a couple of episodes too.
0:39.0	Yesterday morning we were sitting in the office and one of us gets a news alert or someone sees it on
0:45.6	Twitter the government is going to parogue parliament. Suspend it shortly after
0:51.6	MPs get back from their summer break next week.
0:55.1	The government says this is so they have time to draw up a list of policy plans before a Queen's
1:01.0	speech announcing them in mid-October.
1:04.3	Opponents say this is a calculated move to limit the time Parliament would have to prevent a
1:09.8	no-deal Brexit.
1:12.2	It all seems to have taken the anger and accusations to the next level.
1:17.0	We're not going to wait until October 31st before getting on with our plans to take this
1:27.0	country forward.
1:28.0	Bring it on.
1:29.0	Bring it on. What we won't do is allow Boris Johnson to act like a dictator. I think the outrage is
1:37.0	I think the outrage is phony and it is created by people who don't want us to leave
1:46.0	the European Union. If Jeremy Corbyn did that, many of my Conservative colleagues would
1:50.6	be accusing him of Trotsky Act tactics.
1:53.0	BASHI STAU STAF!
1:55.0	BASHIEIE MOUBACINAF, everybody back it up,
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