Britain's Brexit saviour?
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Boris Johnson has promised to get the UK out of the European Union by 31 October,"do or die" - but can the incoming Prime Minister deliver anything more than gusto?
Andrew Rosindell thinks so. The Conservative Member of Parliament and supporter of Mr Johnson tells Ed Butler what the Brexit plan is, and why the worst case scenario of the UK crashing out of the EU with no deal at all is nothing to fret about.
Will the EU countenance any further renegotiation of the divorce deal already struck with Mr Johnson's predecessor? We ask Ryan Heath, political editor at the website Politico Europe. Plus Allie Renison of Britain's Institute of Directors gives us a business perspective on what a no-deal scenario would mean, and the trade issues we should be most concerned about.
(Picture: Newly elected Conservative party leader Boris Johnson poses outside the Conservative headquarters; Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:06.4 | Today, Britain is getting a new Prime Minister. |
| 0:09.4 | The man most credited with swinging the 2016 referendum towards Brexit |
| 0:13.7 | has now been given the job of delivering it. |
| 0:16.6 | And Boris Johnson's taking up that task with gusto. |
| 0:20.4 | I say to all the doubters, dude, we are going to energise the country. |
| 0:25.1 | We're going to get Brexit done on October 31st. |
| 0:27.4 | We're going to take advantage of all the opportunities that it will bring in a new spirit of can-do. |
| 0:32.9 | Thank you all very much. |
| 0:35.2 | But can Boris Johnson succeed where his predecessor failed? Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:44.0 | So Boris Johnson, it is, having won some two-thirds of his party support in a leadership election. |
| 0:51.2 | What do we need to know about the man? Well, he's 55 years old. He's a former London |
| 0:55.6 | mayor and foreign secretary and he went to the same school as a previous PM, David Cameron. |
| 1:00.4 | Oh, and he has a history of making controversial comments, prompting accusations in some |
| 1:05.6 | quarters of populism, racism, even homophobia. On the other hand, President Trump likes him. |
| 1:12.1 | They're saying Britain Trump. |
| 1:13.7 | They call him Britain Trump. |
| 1:14.7 | And people are saying, that's a good thing. |
| 1:16.4 | They like me over there. |
| 1:17.8 | That's what they wanted. |
| 1:19.4 | That's what they need. |
| 1:21.4 | It's what they need. |
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