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Political Fix

Farewell Priti hello Penny, and solving the Northern Ireland conundrum

Political Fix

Financial Times

Politics, News, News & Politics

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Has Theresa May’s government been fatally weakened by the forced departure of Priti Patel? And is any progress being made in addressing the Northern Ireland border problem after Brexit? With George Parker and Alex Barker of the Financial Times, plus Henry Newman from the Open Europe think tank. Presented by Sebastian Payne. Produced by Madison Darbyshire.  

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0:00.0

Everybody is talking about ESG at the moment. The danger is it's been reduced to easily measurable metrics.

0:09.0

What we mean by actually ESG is how do we think about the investments we're making for

0:14.5

clients and the impact they have in the real world.

0:18.7

Find out more by searching for Bailey Gifford actual investors. Welcome to F.T. Politics, the Financial Times is podcast on all things British politics.

0:35.8

I'm Sebastian Payne and in this week's episode we'll be discussing the departure of

0:39.7

Priti Patel, the arrival of Penny Mordent, and how Brexit questions about Northern Ireland can be resolved.

0:46.0

I'm delighted to be joined by our political editor George Parker, Brussels Bureau Chief Alex Barker,

0:50.8

and Henry Newman from the Open Europe Think Tank.

0:53.7

Thank you all for joining.

0:54.9

It's all been going so well for Theresa May's government this week.

0:58.7

The route over Pretty Patel's secret meetings in Israel reached a breaking point with the

1:03.1

international development sector jetting halfway across the world to

1:06.6

handle her resignation. Her replacement came in the form of the former

1:10.0

disability minister

1:15.0

in as Penny Mordent. This is pleased Conservative MPs, but the main government is still anything but strong and stable.

1:18.0

Is the Prime Minister in as much power as some seem to think?

1:21.0

So George Parker, it's been another tumultuous week in British politics.

1:26.0

We've of the second cabinet resignation in the space of a fortnight with the first Sir Michael

1:30.4

Fallon and now Pritter, it gives a bit of background on how we arrived at this

1:34.3

and Miss Patel decided to resign.

1:36.5

Well, it's been a sorry tale race in the beginning.

1:38.6

First of all, the BBC,

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