Brexit: Where Next?

The Briefing Room

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🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Theresa May has been back in Brussels to attend a meeting of EU leaders, a day after surviving a leadership challenge at home. Her mission: to try to extract some form of concession from the other 27 EU member states that might persuade MPs in Westminster to support the withdrawal agreement the UK has concluded with the EU. Few commentators give her much chance of success. It still seems likely that when the deal is finally voted on by Parliament, it will be rejected. So what would happen then? Would the UK be heading for the EU exit door with no-deal? Might there be a vote of confidence that could lead to a general election? Could MPs from both main parties form a temporary government of national unity? Or might the Prime Minister accede to demands for a new referendum? With the historian Peter Hennessy, Jill Rutter of the Institute For Government, Agata Gostynska-Jakubowska of the Centre for European Reform and Meg Russell from University College London.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the briefing room with me, David Aronovich.
0:02.6	The briefing room is the place where you and I get briefed together on the great matters of the moment by folk who actually know what they're talking about.
0:10.3	And if it works for you, and I suppose especially if it doesn't, please communicate by writing a review or rating us on iTunes or your podcast provider.
0:18.9	Today, where does this week's excitement leave us on Brexit,
0:22.4	apart, that is, from being a week closer to March's departure date?
0:27.3	And if you enjoy this podcast, you might enjoy other editions of the briefing room,
0:30.9	which are all available on BBC Sounds. The United States.
0:40.3	Be mused, maybe even exasperated, they are.
0:45.3	It's so sad. It's a really, really sad situation,
0:49.3	not just for the people in the United Kingdom, but also for us in the EU 27. We've done a lot to help the UK, this withdrawal agreement,
0:57.0	is the only possible agreement, and we've done a lot of concessions to reach it.
1:02.0	We have spiraled again into a new mess.
1:05.0	If this deal is rejected in their commons, we are left with no deal or no Brexit at all.
1:13.1	Senior Europeans seeking to make head or tail,
1:16.1	kopf old schvance,
1:17.7	t'et uke of where after the last week's histrionics
1:21.0	Britain now is on Brexit.
1:23.8	So today the briefing room will try and find out for them
1:26.3	and for you and, frankly and frankly for me step inside.
1:35.3	In the briefing room with me round the table I have three experts who are going to help me become clear on all this.
1:41.7	Jill Rutter from the Institute for Government, Agadogostinska Jakubovska,
1:45.9	who works at the pro-EU think tank, the Centre for European Reform, and Meg Russell,
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