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Fighting Over Crumbs Eurosceptics And The EU Deal

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🗓️ 3 February 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Fighting over crumbs: Eurosceptics and the EU deal

Released 04 February 2016

With James Forsyth, Freddy Gray, Stephen Bayley, Vote Leave's Stephen Parkinson, Kate Andrews from the Republican Party Overseas and Historic England's Posy Metz. Presented by Isabel Hardman

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0:00.0

This is The View from 22 from The Spectator.

0:02.6

Subscribe from just £1 a week at spectator.com.

0:09.4

Welcome to The View from 22 podcast.

0:13.9

I'm Isbara Harbman, the assistant editor of The Spectator.

0:17.1

In this week's issue, political editor James Forsyth asks whether David Cameron is somehow beating the Eurosceptics against all odds.

0:25.2

In the wake of the publication of the draft EU deal this week, James suggests that the current climate ought to have whipped up the perfect storm for Eurosceptics to pounce.

0:35.1

Amidst the migrant crisis plaguing the continent and widespread dislike of the

0:39.0

EU in Britain, those backing Brexit could not have dreamed of a better scenario. But instead,

0:45.4

the Eurosceptic campaign is in chaos. Here to discuss this with James is Vote Leaves Stephen Parkinson.

0:52.4

And just how was Donald Trump trumped? The spectator's deputy editor

0:56.7

Freddie Gray asks what went wrong in Iowa for the Donald and whether Trump's campaign will now melt

1:02.2

away. Here to discuss that with Freddie about what's next for the grand old party is the Republican

1:08.1

Party overseas representative Kate Andrews. And I'll also be talking to

1:13.4

Stephen Bailey about the spectators inaugural What's That Thing Award given to the worst public

1:18.7

art polluting our townscapes. After a year scouring the streets of Britain, he talks us through

1:24.5

the worst offenders. And joining him to discuss why not all public art is something to be ashamed of is historic England's Posey Metz.

1:33.3

Now, where did it go so wrong for the Brexit campaign?

1:37.9

Euro-sceptics could hardly have asked for more favourable conditions for a referendum,

1:42.4

and the arguments for Britain leaving the EU are all

1:45.3

there, waiting for someone persuasive to deliver them, says James Forsyth. But James argues,

1:51.3

after years of waiting, the painful truth is that Euroscepticism is not ready for the

1:56.5

confrontation it has spent so long hoping for. James is joined now by Stephen Parkinson from

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