Is a Brexit deal imminent?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Spectator magazine combines incisive political analysis with books and arts reviews of unrivaled authority. Absolutely free. Go to spectator.com.uk forward slash voucher. |
| 0:24.8 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots and Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Katie |
| 0:30.2 | Balls and I'm joined by James Forsy. James, we seem to be at a turning point in terms of the Brexit talks. |
| 0:39.0 | Overnight we saw pizza pilgrims delivered to where the negotiations were. |
| 0:43.8 | Since then, there's talk of progress and there's increasing optimism that a deal could be in the offing. |
| 0:50.0 | What do you think the timeline is? |
| 0:51.8 | And do you think now it'd be a big surprise if a deal wasn't reached between the UK and the EU? |
| 0:57.7 | So first of all, I feel we should begin by kind of slightly apologising to the listeners. |
| 1:01.7 | Because so many times Brexit, there have been massively hyped up Brexit deadlines. |
| 1:06.9 | This is the crunch week. |
| 1:08.6 | And then nothing's crunched, talks have continued but i really do think |
| 1:12.2 | that if you don't wake up on monday morning to news that there is a deal then it's pretty almost |
| 1:18.2 | certain that they will not be a deal the reason why i think is twofold one is uh the internal market |
| 1:24.4 | bill and the finance bill are both in the house of Commons on Monday and Tuesday, respectively next week. |
| 1:28.7 | They both contain clauses, or government in the case of the internal market bill, will try and put back in a clause. |
| 1:35.6 | The government has said breaks international law in a very specific and limited way. |
| 1:39.6 | The EU will simply say in those situations, well, how can we negotiate with you if you are |
| 1:45.0 | putting this legislation forward again? So I think that creates a deadline. The second thing |
| 1:50.7 | that creates a deadline is they're in the final EU council meeting of the Euros on Thursday. |
| 1:54.7 | And I think the deal would really have to be signed off then. And that means the deal has to be |
| 1:59.3 | translated. You know, not to, you cannot exactly imagine Emmanuel Macron saying, oh, I've signed off on this treaty |
| 2:04.8 | that I can't read in French. And given the length of this thing, that will need the document |
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