EXTRA: Brexit – Deal or No Deal?

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This is an audio recording of an IfG Live Event The UK and EU have agreed to continue the Brexit negotiations in an effort to resolve outstanding issues such as fishing rights, state aid and governance. Although both sides say they want an agreement, a no-deal Brexit is still possible. Even if there is a deal, there will be significant changes to how businesses trade between the UK and EU – but this message has failed to cut through. Selling a deal back home – and the compromises it might involve – could also be politically difficult. In the week of the Prime Minister’s initial deadline for negotiations and a critical meeting of the European Council, our panel takes stock of the Brexit talks and look ahead to what we can expect before the end of the year. Panellists Tony Connelly, Europe Editor at RTE News Dame Carolyn Fairbairn, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) James Forsyth, Political Editor at The Spectator Sam Lowe, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Reform The event is chaired by Georgina Wright, Senior Researcher, Institute for Government #IfGBrexit See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome. I'm Georgina Wright from the IFG's Brexit team.
0:15.0	Brexit is backing news. We now have less than two months to reach an agreement, vote on that agreement,
0:23.4	and get everything in place before the 1st of January. When deal or no deal, the UK and the EU
0:29.1	will be cooperating on radically different terms. The Prime Minister indicated he wanted to deal
0:35.2	by the end of this week. EU leaders will also be discussing the state of talks when they meet in Brussels later this week.
0:42.3	So what can we expect over the coming weeks? I am absolutely thrilled to be joined by a very distinguished panel to discuss the politics, the technical and the time available for Brexit.
0:55.0	I'm joined by Dane Carolyn Ferben, Director General of the Confederation of British Industry.
1:02.0	Tony Colley, Europe editor at RTE News, James Fulcith, political editor at The Spectator, Anne Samlo, who is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Reform.
1:14.6	Hello to you all.
1:16.1	So before we start, just a few housekeeping rules.
1:20.1	This event is being live streamed.
1:22.1	There will be a recording available after the event on all our social media platforms, should you wish to watch this all over again?
1:28.3	We will be live tweeting and do also tweet if you like using the hashtag at, so hashtag IFT Brexit.
1:37.3	And if you'd like to submit a question, then please do so in the chat box.
1:41.3	We have a Q&A monitor who will make sure I see your question and I will try and ensure that I ask as many as possible.
1:48.6	So we have about 55 minutes. So let's get the discussion underway and do keep your questions coming.
1:57.2	Right. Where are we? Tony, perhaps I can start with you first. We know the EU leaders
2:04.4	meeting Brussels for their quarterly summit and Brexit is on the agenda. What is the mood
2:11.0	like in Brussels right now? Do they think a deal as possible? Thanks Georgina. The mood I think is somewhat tentative at the moment.
2:20.8	Just to bring you up to speed, Michelle Barnier has been in Luxembourg this morning, briefing
2:25.2	European Affairs Ministers on the negotiations. The word I'm getting back from there is that
2:31.2	there's been a bit of movement on the level playing field, not so much on fisheries so on the one hand there is a bit of clarity in that we know there are a finite number of problem areas fisheries the level playing field governance so so that in a sense makes things clear for everyone.
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