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🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to this Spectator podcast. Before you start, I'm just here to briefly tell you about our Brexit flash sale. |
0:06.8 | You can get 10 issues of the Spectator for the price of one in our flash sale, plus a commemorative Brexit mug absolutely free. |
0:14.4 | It has the butterfly completely out of the box, which is the cover of our issue this week. |
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0:27.1 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. |
0:32.0 | I'm Katie Pools and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James Versafe. |
0:36.3 | Boris Johnson has just given his first big speech since the UK |
0:40.2 | left the EU on what Britain will be seeking from the EU in the incoming trade talks. It comes |
0:47.0 | as the EU have published negotiating objectives of their own. I think it's fair to say that both sides |
0:52.3 | are on somewhat different tracks when it comes to what they're after. |
0:56.2 | Now, starting with what the UK will be seeking, here's what Boris Johnson had to say. |
1:00.8 | Let's be clear, the choice is emphatically not deal or no deal. |
1:05.4 | We have a deal. We've done it, and it did indeed turn out, as I correctly prophesied to be oven ready. |
1:13.1 | The question is whether we agree a trading relationship with the EU comparable to Canada's or more like Australians. |
1:27.0 | James, it's no surprise that Boris Johnson is looking for a Canada's style free trade deal. |
1:31.9 | We've heard a lot about this before the election in the campaign and since. |
1:37.1 | But one of the new terms that we started here are the past couple of days, and he just mentioned |
1:41.3 | there was the idea that the plan B of this government, if they cannot get this Canada free trade deal, would be to move to an Australian model. |
1:49.6 | What does he mean by that? |
1:51.0 | He means essentially trading on WTO, World Trade Organisation terms, were a few side agreements on issues such as aviation. |
1:59.2 | It is essentially a slightly more diplomatic way of saying that you're |
2:02.3 | prepared to kind of walk away from the talks. I think if you look at what Michelle Barnier said |
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