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All Out Politics

Cracks in the Union?

All Out Politics

Sky News

News Commentary, Politics, News, Government

4.2156 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

What next for the United Kingdom?

This week, there's a state of the union flavour to the podcast with Brexit tensions in Northern Ireland following the row over vaccine exports AND issues in the Scottish National party following the sacking of Joanna Cherry from the front bench. That as the 'who knew what and when' row between Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond continues and threatens to derail any momentum being built for another independence referendum.

Adam Boulton and guests examine the border questions being discussed in Great Britain and on the island of Ireland and assess the difficulties faced by Boris Johnson's government.

Joining Adam this week are the writer, broadcaster and author of 'How Britain Ends' Gavin Esler; Journalist with Open Democracy and Author of ‘Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics Peter Geoghegan and Sky's political correspondent Kate McCann.

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Hello, welcome to the All That Politics Podcast. I'm Adam Bolton. Joining me this week are the writer and broadcaster, an author of a new book, How Britain Ends, Gavin Esler, the journalist with Open Democracy, an author of Democracy for Sale, Dark Money and Dirty Politics, Peter Geegan, and Sky's political correspondent Kate McCann.

0:57.1

Now, this week we're going to take a look at the Union of the United Kingdom.

1:02.6

There's been some quite interesting developments, of course, in Scotland,

1:06.9

with an apparent internal civil war breaking out in the SNP,

1:11.8

which might possibly dint their hopes of an election walkover at Holyrood later on.

1:19.0

Also going to be talking about what's happening first.

1:21.4

In Northern Ireland, the row over vaccine exports,

1:25.9

and the EU's apparent willingness briefly to invoke a border on the island of Ireland.

1:38.3

Let's go to that first of all.

1:41.3

Talks of course have subsequently been underway involving the cabinet

1:44.9

minister Michael Gove, who appears to be wanting to calm things down a bit. Trust has been

1:52.5

eroded, damage has been done, and urgent action is therefore needed. Peace, progress and strong

1:59.9

community relations in Northern Ireland have been hard

2:01.8

won and in recent days we've seen an increase in community tension and as was

2:06.9

reported last night port staff in Belfast and Larn have been kept away from work

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