CER podcast: Can Rishi Sunak reset the UK-EU relationship?

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In this week’s Centre for European Reform podcast, Peter Foster, public policy editor at the Financial Times and author of the FT ‘Britain after Brexit’ newsletter, joins our director Charles Grant to consider the prospects for repairing UK-EU relations under new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. They consider the scope for compromise on both sides, particularly on the Northern Ireland Protocol, and examine two major pieces of UK legislation, the Retained EU Law Bill and the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill, whose outcome will affect the relationship — for better or worse. Produced by Rosie Giorgi and Helmi Pillai Music by Edward Hipkins

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0:00.0	From the Center for European Reform, this is the CIA podcast.
0:04.1	Poson us seriously the question of the
0:05.9	future that we want, and we all
0:08.0	all together, the courage to it construct.
0:10.5	For us in Germany, is the
0:11.9	Bekenness to the European Europe,
0:14.0	a part of our state's resolve.
0:15.6	A strong united Europe is a necessity for the world,
0:17.9	because an integrated Europe remains vital to our
0:20.1	international order. This is the moment for Europe world because an integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.
0:21.3	This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.
0:27.6	Welcome to this Centre for European Reform podcast. I'm Charles Grant, the CEO's director.
0:33.0	We're going to look today at what the new Rishiunak government means for Britain's relationship with the European
0:38.2	Union. I'm delighted to be joined by a special guest, Peter Foster, who's author of the Britain
0:44.0	after Brexit briefing, which appears every week in the Financial Times and is a great Brexit watcher.
0:50.4	Well, welcome, Peter. Thanks, Charles. Good to be here. Good. Nice to have you.
0:55.4	We're going to look at what's happening in the UK-E relationship, whether or not Rishi Sunat's government means we may be able to get a bit of a reset.
1:03.2	I mean, certainly, Liz Truss, during her very brief period as Prime Minister, did actually start to improve the tone of the relationship somewhat.
1:10.6	She went off to Prague for the
1:12.1	first meeting of the new body called the European political community. She had some bilateral
1:17.1	meetings there, including with President Macron. And generally, the vibes got more positive and
1:22.3	more encouraging. And she set her negotiators off to try and get a compromise on the famous Northern Ireland Protocol, which we'll come back to in a moment.
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