How damaging is Brexit?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
We’ve had the Brexit Opportunities Minister and the Brexit Benefits Department but weirdly - we still can’t point to what those are.
Today we ask if the UK economy is measurably worse off after Brexit (spoiler : the answer is yes) and what the solutions are. We hear the position of business, and talk to Tony Danker, the Director General of the Confederate of Business Industry. We look at the metrics with the Financial Times' Peter Foster that tell us what Brexit has done to growth. And we ask if the Mini Budget Kwarteng epiphany was a result of a country now desperate to plug holes Brexit has left.
Later in the show, we hear from the other side of the Brexit deal: the EU. The outgoing EU Ambassador to the UK João Vale de Almeida is in News Agents HQ.
Planning: Melissa Tutesigensi
Production: Gabriel Radus
Deputy Editor: Tom Hughes
Executive Producer: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | Yesterday, the Lib Dem Leader Reddavy came into our newsagents HQ |
| 0:10.0 | and started talking about Leakey Sue, Suella Braverman. |
| 0:13.4 | We raised a sceptical, quizzical eyebrow as to where that nickname had come from |
| 0:19.9 | and what evidence he had for it. |
| 0:21.9 | It turns out the evidence came from the Conservative Party chairman, recently sacked, himself. |
| 0:30.1 | Listen to Jake Berry on Talk TV last night. |
| 0:34.0 | On Asuela Braveman, though, you were there in the government, in the bunker at the end when she was fired. |
| 0:38.4 | Was it right that she came back? |
| 0:40.5 | Well, six days is a long time in politics. |
| 0:43.5 | It's for the new Prime Minister. |
| 0:46.1 | And he must be free to appoint whoever he wants. |
| 0:48.0 | But look, what I would say is, from my own knowledge, there were multiple breaches of the Ministerial Code. |
| 0:53.7 | In fact, from multiple beaches of the ministerial code. In fact, multiple |
| 0:55.0 | beaches of the ministerial code. It was sent from a private email address to another |
| 0:59.9 | member of Parliament. She then sought to copy of that individual's wife and accidentally sent it to a |
| 1:05.8 | staffer in Parliament. To me, that seems a really serious breach, especially when it was |
| 1:10.1 | documents relating to cyber security, as I believe. That seems a really serious breach, especially when it was documents relating to cyber security, as I believe. |
| 1:13.6 | That seems a really serious breach. |
| 1:15.5 | The Cabinet Secretary had his say at the time. |
| 1:18.0 | I doubt he's changed his mind in the last six days, but that's a matter for the new prime minister. |
| 1:21.5 | And did she hold her hands up to it in that meeting? |
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