Impact assessments, wobbly Mrs May and the romance of fire places
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 1:01.0 | Hello, welcome to the new European podcast. My name's Richard Poit. I'm joined for the news this week by Jerry Scott. |
| 1:07.9 | Hello. |
| 1:08.7 | Myself and Steve Anglesea are going to have a little chat about |
| 1:11.1 | Theresa May and the potential for a challenge for her leadership, which has sort of been in and out |
| 1:17.7 | of the news this week. And then we're going to crown a Brexit year of the week, as usual, of course. |
| 1:22.1 | But firstly, Jerry, the impact statements, it turns out they do exist. They do exist. They're real. |
| 1:28.8 | Hallelujah. But there's bad news, isn't there? There is bad news. This was a scoop by BuzzFeed, |
| 1:33.8 | wasn't it? Brilliant. Brilliant. Yeah. Yeah, so there's these impact papers, aren't there? |
| 1:38.4 | And they are not good news. They're not. So let's have a, let me run down some of the, I think the hard Brexit scenario would see the UK economy 8% smaller than it would have been without Brexit. |
| 1:53.3 | So there's a great column by James Ball in this week's New European, go and buy it now. |
| 1:59.8 | Well, actually, finish listening to the pod then go and by it. |
| 2:02.6 | And he's done the math on this, and he says the country would be about 196 billion pounds a year poorer. |
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