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#CatoConnects: Brexit Happened. Now What?

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4.5979 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Brexit is now in progress. So what are the next steps and how will trade and migration be affected? Cato's Tom Clougherty and Marian Tupy take questions via Twitter.

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0:00.0

This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, June 30th, 2016. I'm Caleb Brown.

0:07.0

Voters in the UK have opted to leave the European Union, so is the Union now doomed?

0:12.0

And what about Migration II and Trade? So is the Union now doomed?

0:12.6

And what about migration to and trade

0:14.8

with the fifth largest economy on the planet?

0:18.3

We're alive Cato connects today.

0:19.8

Cato's Tom Clardy and Marion Tupi

0:22.0

took questions from Twitter.

0:26.0

The question was, should Britain leave the European Union or remain in the European Union,

0:30.7

about 52% of British voters decided to leave.

0:35.0

Now, that referendum did not have any immediate legal impact.

0:39.4

Constitutionally in Britain,

0:40.6

referendums are only advisory.

0:42.6

So this didn't immediately trigger a departure from the European Union.

0:46.4

Britain is still a member of the European Union until certain negotiations have taken place.

0:52.0

What it does do, I think, is create a duty on the part of the government

0:55.4

to remove Britain from the set of centralized political and legal institutions which

1:02.4

make laws that are superior to British laws.

1:06.2

That's essentially it.

1:07.2

We have to leave the political union based in Brussels.

1:11.4

Beyond that, there is a huge amount up for discussion. What would

1:14.3

the terms of Britain's relationship after an eventual Brexit look like? When

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