Happy Birthday Brexit?
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week, Christopher Hope returns to his spiritual home, the Red Lion pub, to discuss, you guessed it, Brexit. Three years on from leaving the E.U., many grumblings rumble on. So joining Chris to discuss the Northern Ireland protocol, the Union and more, David Jones (Deputy Chairman of the European Research Group) & Alex Phillips (Former Brexit Party MEP & GB News Broadcaster). In fact, Alex has an announcement of her own.
Plus, as the country is crippled by strikes and with another Nurses walkout on the horizon, Health Minister Helen Whately dropped by the pub to explain the government's position.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tropper's politics. |
| 0:04.0 | So I do quite like eating cake. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm not a cake banner, I'm a cake eater. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to Chopper's Politics Podcast with me Christopher Hope chopper to my friends |
| 0:17.0 | the Telegraph Association for Politics |
| 0:20.0 | and we're here in my spiritual home in the Red Lion pub in Westminster, a stone throw from Parliament |
| 0:25.8 | and Number 10 Downing Street. |
| 0:28.1 | Please be warned, there's a bit of unknown beeping in the pub this week, we can't find out what it is and we're sorry |
| 0:35.2 | here we go happy birthday Brexit that's right on the 31st of January 2020 the UK left the European Union. |
| 0:45.2 | We should celebrate the fact that freed from the constraints of the European Union |
| 0:52.3 | we once again will be able to find our place in the world. |
| 0:57.6 | Well that was then, and this is now, Brexit is still not yet done with EU rules still applicable in Northern Ireland. |
| 1:06.4 | And just to spoil the party this week Gee Verhofstadt that tormentor of Brexiteers and the former European Parliament's chief Brexit |
| 1:14.7 | negotiator said he could imagine the UK rejoining in five years time. |
| 1:20.4 | So we'll take stop this week on Choppers Politics Podcast. |
| 1:23.7 | Don't forget, you used to be called Choppers Brexit Podcast. |
| 1:27.3 | With David Jones, the Vice Chairman of the European Research Group of Tory MPs, |
| 1:31.5 | and Alexandra Phillips, a former Brexit Party MEP, who has an announcement |
| 1:36.4 | of our own. |
| 1:38.0 | But we can't and we won't ignore the chaos in the National Health Service with nurses |
| 1:42.4 | due to strike again on pain next week, |
| 1:45.0 | and a feeling surrounding the whole Health Service of perpetual crisis. |
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