Brexitcast: Breakfast with Barnier

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Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Three years since the UK left the EU, talks are still going on over trading arrangements. Why are they happening and what has changed since Brexit? Adam is back in Brussels to mark the anniversary – and we’ve got the whole Brexitcast gang together! There will of course be cake, as well as analysis and memories from the BBC’s Europe editor Katya Adler, and political editors past and present, Laura Kuenssberg and Chris Mason. We’ve also finally caught up with Michel Barnier! The former EU chief negotiator joins us in London with his insider’s take on the talks and how he sees UK-EU relations moving forwards. It turns out he may have been lured across the Channel by the promise of a full English breakfast. And the BBC’s global trade correspondent, Dharshini David, explains what can say about the impact of Brexit on the economy. This episode of Brexitcast was made by Daniel Wittenberg with Cordelia Hemming, Greg Brosnan and George Crafer. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.8	Hello, I'm back in Brussels for the first time in ages
0:08.3	because we're going to bring you a special anniversary edition of Brexitcast
0:11.9	because it's almost exactly three years since the UK left the EU
0:17.6	at the end of January 2020.
0:20.4	I'm going to watch this. This is it. Are you coming? It's coming.
0:23.3	And there you have it. The recorded sound of a big Ben is down.
0:31.2	It was obviously there I went into the transition period so it wasn't like full on Brexit.
0:34.5	That came a bit later but it was the moment that the UK left the institutions
0:39.1	and we all know the drama that led up to that.
0:41.5	Now I wanted to give myself a little treat coming back here and obviously I'm
0:46.0	going to have beers with people in coffees but you know what I wanted to see
0:49.7	the original withdrawal agreement. So I asked the European Council
0:53.7	who are the people that store all these things if I could see
0:56.7	the finished Brexit deal and they've arranged for me to see it. So I'm in the
1:00.5	Council offices and the very kind archivists thank you very much.
1:04.7	I've gone and got the original Brexit deal out of the archives.
1:08.4	It's normally stored in a giant safe deposit box. Temperature controlled to
1:12.4	between 16 and 20 degrees with limited humidity and a CCZV camera as well to
1:18.2	make sure it doesn't burn down and they've brought it out for me to
1:21.8	have a look at. I'm not allowed to touch it. I'm going to ask Gerard the
1:25.4	archivist to pick it up and lift it down so you can get a sense of the heft.
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