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Welcome to the briefing room with me, David O'Ronovich. Let's say you're the Prime Minister

and I'm the Cabinet Secretary and we have 28 minutes to get the best briefing we can on a big

subject. Happens all the time. So we call the clearest minds into one room and ask them to take us through it.

That room is the briefing room.

And here we are.

Our question today, when we end up leaving the EU, or even if eventually we don't,

what will Britain's place in the world look like?

And if you enjoy this podcast, you might enjoy other editions

of the briefing room, which are all available on BBC Sounds. This week, inside the briefing

room, we're not looking at what's going on in the Palace of Westminster.

There are plenty of excellent BBC colleagues and others doing that already.

We're going to get an idea of Britain's future in the world once it has been resolved, how we will leave the EU, or even if eventually we don't.

Those discussions have barely begun yet, but they'll define

ours and our children's future. Who will we trade with and how? What will have happened to our

influence in the world? Who will our friends and closest partners be? Step inside the briefing

room to find out.

To take me and you through all this, I have four experts in their fields.

Nairie Woods is the dean of the Brevatnik School of Government at Oxford University.

Sam Lowe is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Reform, a think tank.

Meg Russell is the Director of the Constitution Unit at University College London.

And for the view from Europe, we're also joined by Stephanie Bolton,

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