Brexit: will it ever be over?
Beyond Today
BBC
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
We started the day recording a podcast about the vote set to take place in Parliament tomorrow, where MPs were to decide on whether or not to accept Theresa May’s Brexit deal. And then the vote got postponed, so we had to record another one. Leila Nathoo and Daniel Kraemer from the BBC Westminster newsroom explain why the process has got so chaotic and go through the options MPs need to decide on as the date set for leaving the EU of March 29th next year looms. Unless that gets postponed too.
Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Producer: Harriet Noble Editor: John Shields
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, I'm Matthew Price and this is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.0 | Every weekday we ask one big question about one big story in the news. |
| 0:14.0 | Today Brexit, will it ever be over? |
| 0:25.0 | I suppose the first part of this podcast is actually less about Brexit and more about how |
| 0:36.7 | we put this episode together. Let's begin with how we were going to start. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello, I'm Lela Nothu, one of the BBC's political correspondence. And if you could quickly introduce yourself as well. |
| 0:50.0 | Hi there, I'm Daniel Kramer, I work in the political research unit at Westminster in BBC and |
| 0:55.0 | Lila and Daniel I mean for you this is this is like the World Cup final this |
| 0:59.9 | moment isn't it this is a moment. I love it. I complain a lot about our really long days and |
| 1:08.0 | I keep talking, but actually it's what we live for. And then we recorded 20 minutes of us talking about what was going to |
| 1:14.7 | happen in Parliament tomorrow and what was going to happen was going to be a very |
| 1:20.4 | big moment in the whole Brexit story. I mean I think particularly because Brexit has been going on for so long and there have been so many |
| 1:26.4 | sort of moments where it has seemed like things were going to happen but actually genuinely this week it really does feel like that. |
| 1:34.6 | But then while we were editing that recording the news broke that Theresa May was |
| 1:39.6 | going to postpone the vote. It is clear that while there is broad support for many of the |
| 1:44.4 | key aspects of the deal on one issue on one issue the Northern Ireland |
| 1:51.1 | backstop there remains widespread and deep concern. |
| 1:56.0 | As a result if we went ahead and held the vote tomorrow, the deal would be rejected by a significant |
| 2:01.5 | margin. So Harriet, who's producing today got on the phone to the BBC team in Westminster. |
| 2:07.0 | Hello, news desk. |
| 2:08.7 | Oh, hello, and my name's Harriet, I'm calling from the Beyond Today podcast. We were just wondering if we would be able to have a political |
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