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🗓️ 9 April 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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In this special episode of Coffee House Shots, Fraser Nelson talks to Peter Oborne on why, as a former Brexiteer, Oborne thinks we must think again about Brexit.
You can read Peter Oborne's article here.
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0:00.0 | This is Spectator Radio, the Spectator's curated podcast collection. |
0:06.9 | Welcome to a special edition of Coffee House Shots for Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. |
0:13.4 | Yesterday, Peter O'Born set the world a light with an article, where he said that he was changing his position on Brexit. |
0:20.0 | He used to back it, but various things |
0:22.5 | have led him to change his mind. I'm Fraser Nelson, and I also changed my mind over the years, |
0:29.0 | but the other way, from Remain to Leave. But given how much I tend to agree with Peter Ron, |
0:35.6 | I'm interested to find out why he changed his mind, |
0:38.6 | if I'm the one who's blinkered, and whether the situation really does call for a fundamental |
0:44.5 | reassessment of not just what we think about Brexit, but what the country thinks about Brexit. |
0:49.8 | Peter, it's great to be with you today. Can you say a bit about how you changed your mind? Were there any |
0:56.7 | points of this journey? Was there a day where you woke up and saw a news development and thought |
1:00.5 | this is fundamentally different to how I imagined it would be? Yeah, there have been several, |
1:05.5 | there were several sort of punches to the solar plexus. And the economic one, it was symbolic more than anything else, but it was when |
1:12.6 | James Dyson, he was the sort of poster boy of Brexit, this great industrialist who said it was |
1:17.1 | okay to Brexit, good to Brexit. And when he suddenly announced he was upping sticks and going to |
1:21.7 | Singapore, it was like a punch to the solar plexers to me. And then Jim Radcliffe, the great |
1:27.0 | chemicals industrialist, evacuates Britain to me. And then Jim Radcliffe, the great chemicals industrialist, |
1:28.8 | evacuates Britain more recently. And that was at a moment when suddenly the head offices of so many |
1:36.5 | major international companies start to quit Britain, Panasonic, Sonny, Honda closes its plant in Swindon, the news coming from the northeast. |
1:47.0 | You suddenly started to wonder whether the economic model set out by the Brexiteers |
1:52.9 | maybe was an absolute falsehood, as I believe it is. |
1:58.1 | Further back, Trump, I think behind Brexit laid the idea of a benign international order, |
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