Episode 86: Jeremy Hunt, UK Foreign Secretary

EU Confidential

POLITICO

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.4 • 175 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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U.K. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt talks to POLITICO's Ryan Heath in this extra edition of our podcast.Hunt once took heavy fire from Brussels for making a comparison that invoked the EU and the Soviet Union. But he's been much more diplomatic lately in his dealings with the EU.In this exclusive interview in our Brussels office, he talks extensively about Brexit. “It’s massively in everyone’s interest to get back to stability,” Hunt says, adding that he hopes negotiations between London and Brussels will yield a revised deal “in the next few days.”A quick resolution is necessary, Hunt says, “for the sake of sanity of the population of Britain and indeed of Europe.”In addition to Brexit, Hunt discusses Huawei, Facebook, the Iran nuclear deal and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0	Hey everyone. Welcome back to EU Confidential. I'm your host, Ryan Heath, the political editor at Politico Europe, and you're listening to a special episode of the number one EU politics podcast. Why is it special? Because I sat down on Monday evening with Jeremy Hunt, the UK Foreign Secretary, at a crucial point in the Brexit negotiations. And we thought you needed to hear about what he has to say ahead of our
1:28.4	regular Thursday time slot. We spoke to Hunt about a lot of other issues including Huawei, Facebook,
1:34.3	what he's up to in trying to bring peace in Yemen and how he is trying to ensure that the Iran nuclear
1:40.9	deal continues. But we also spoke a lot about Brexit. Obviously, the Brexit
1:46.3	negotiator Steve Barclay has been here in recent days. There's obviously a countdown to a very
1:51.9	difficult vote, let's say, yet again, at the end of the month in the UK Parliament. And of course,
1:57.2	there's been that breakaway group from the UK Labour Party. Hunt talks about all of that and more.
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