Can you Brexit-proof your finances – and what happens next with Britain leaving the EU?

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🗓️ 14 December 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Nobody can escape the Brexit bedlam that has been playing out before our eyes, especially in the last week.

In between backstops, trade deals, Norway, contempt of parliament, no-confidence, withdrawing withdrawal votes… what is really going on?

Editor Simon Lambert, assistant editor Lee Boyce and host Georgie Frost discuss Brexit in the latest This is Money podcast.

Are we going to leave? Should we really have a second referendum and can you do anything to Brexit-proof your cash? We talk it all through in our Brexit special.

Outside the Brexit bubble, we look into those DNA self-testing kits being plugged by a number of firms as the perfect Christmas gift – could you get more than you bargained for?

Simon reveals the best and worst performing funds of 2018 so far, in Top of the Pops fashion and Lee runs down the clever apps from challengers looking to encourage the savings habit.

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0:00.0	Welcome to This Is Money podcast in partnership with NS&I. I'm your host, Georgie Frost, and
0:06.9	alongside editor Simon Lambert Knight today is Assistant Editor Lee Boyce. And coming up, we take on Brexit.
0:13.8	Try as we might, we can avoid it no longer. Lee, stop rolling your eyes. But we'll try and cut through
0:19.2	the political mayhem and focus on your finances,
0:22.1	as well as working out why it all reminds Simon of vacuum cleaners. Also laughably, and I say this is
0:28.4	someone who spent many a long evening, morning, lunchtime, forever debating the subject. We think we may
0:34.0	also have time to cover DNA self-testing kits, the best and worst funds and
0:38.0	challenger banks. But we shall see about that. Don't forget you to stay up today with all the
0:42.2	latest breaking money news. Just go to this ismoney.com or download the app.
0:47.7	This is Money brought to you in partnership with Ennis and I. For a gift your little ones
0:51.8	will appreciate even when they're not so little. Give them premium bonds at NS&I.com.
0:56.9	Now, as much as we have tried on this show to avoid it, can anyone escape the Brexit bedlam that has been playing out before our eyes, particularly over the last week, though one might suggest it's been going on rather longer than that.
1:11.0	In between bag stops, trade deals, Norway, plus plus plus plus, plus.
1:14.5	Contemptive Parliament, no confidence, withdrawing, withdrawal votes.
1:17.8	What is really going on?
1:19.8	Are we going to leave?
1:21.1	Should we really have a second referendum?
1:23.1	And can you do anything to Brexit-proof your cash?
1:25.9	Does anybody know?
1:27.2	I won't pretend that we will, but heck, we'll give it a bash as we always do.
1:30.7	So, Simon, let's have a little recap.
1:33.8	2016, we went to the polls.
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