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EMERGENCY BREXITCAST: Something has to give

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BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Stop everything! The EU has published the draft withdrawal agreement.

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0:00.0

Hello, Brexit Casters, and in particular, James Ball on Twitter at JamesRBUK, who just

0:06.4

said, frankly, a poll, there's no emergency Brexit cast up yet today, guys, cancels Brexit

0:11.9

cast direct debit.

0:12.9

Oh, well, good to see someone's getting somebody out of this.

0:15.1

It doesn't make its way to me.

0:16.5

Anyway, fear not, here is an emergency Brexit cast because it's been a really big day.

0:21.0

Michel Barnier and the European Commission has published a draft of the withdrawal agreement.

0:25.6

This is the document that will eventually become the Brexit treaty that Theresa May will

0:30.0

sign at some point that will usher the UK out of the EU.

0:34.4

What this whole thing is about, it's a massive document very long, not easy to read, but

0:39.8

we can boil it down into some big themes, particularly regarding Northern Ireland and

0:44.3

this idea of maintaining alignment between Northern Ireland and Ireland on EU rules after

0:49.8

Brexit, which is quite a thorny one.

0:52.6

Anyway, cue the claxon.

0:54.8

Brexit cast.

0:56.3

Brexit cast.

0:57.3

From BBC Five Life and BBC News.

1:00.9

Brexit means Brexit.

1:03.1

Breaking up is hard.

1:04.7

The people voted and they have to get on with it a process which I cannot describe as a

1:10.3

dox Brexit.

1:11.3

Brexit means Brexit, but what does Brexit mean?

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