Has Rishi Sunak 'got Brexit done' today?
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
It’s been four years since we formally left the EU - and its been eight years of trying to square an impossible circle. How do you keep Brexiteers happy, the EU on board and Northern Ireland’s government up and running, all at once?
Well today Rishi came through with a deal which might - big emphasis MIGHT hit the spot.
We take you through what we know.
Later, Nicola Sturgeon explains to the Scotland Covid inquiry which she didn’t, sorry did, sorry didn’t really delete her WhatsApp messages. It all gets a bit emotional.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.8 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | If your head is spinning with news about Stormont and power sharing and the DUP and the Northern Ireland executive and you don't |
| 0:22.9 | really understand what it's all about. We're going to distill it for you into a very simple question |
| 0:27.9 | today. A deal has been done, is in the process of being done, which Rishi thinks will answer |
| 0:36.4 | the biggest question of them all. Four years after we've left |
| 0:41.3 | the EU to the day, has he finally squared the circle to get Brexit done? Welcome to the news agents. |
| 0:53.4 | The news agents. |
| 0:55.7 | It's Emily. |
| 0:56.8 | It's Lewis. |
| 0:57.4 | A little bit later, we're going to be looking at Nicholas Sturgeon before the COVID inquiry |
| 1:02.0 | and just what she was trying to explain to us about her WhatsApp and indeed her M.O. |
| 1:07.7 | As First Minister during that catastrophic time. |
| 1:10.4 | But first, we are just digesting the command paper, which the government has just published. |
| 1:17.3 | It's an 80-page document that was released about 1 o'clock just after Prime Minister's questions, |
| 1:22.2 | and it's called Safeguarding the Union. |
| 1:24.5 | And this is basically the government's blueprint to amend the deal that Rishi |
| 1:28.8 | Sunak negotiated with the EU last year, the Windsor framework. This was his package of measures |
| 1:34.6 | to try and basically improve the absolute botched job, to be honest, Brexit deal that Boris Johnson |
| 1:41.0 | bequeathed the country and bequeathed Northern Ireland, which basically, |
| 1:44.8 | as we were saying yesterday, set up a trade border, a barrier down the Irish sea. |
| 1:49.4 | It meant that Northern Ireland was struggling to get products without checks from Great Britain |
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