Is the government trying to soften Brexit?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:16.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots as Vettators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James Scythe and Fraser Nelson. |
| 0:25.7 | Does the government plan to change the UK's relationship with the EU? |
| 0:30.0 | That's a claims in the papers over the weekend, but today, Rishi Sunak has used his speech |
| 0:34.5 | at the CBI conference to slap down the idea of a Swiss model Brexit. |
| 0:39.2 | Here's what he had to say. |
| 0:40.4 | Let me be unequivocal about this. Under my leadership, the United Kingdom will not pursue any |
| 0:46.8 | relationship with Europe that relies on alignment with EU laws. Now, I voted for Brexit, |
| 0:53.7 | I believe in Brexit, and I know that Brexit can deliver and is already delivering |
| 0:59.8 | enormous benefits and opportunities for the country. |
| 1:03.5 | Fraser, what's going on here? |
| 1:05.9 | Well, what's going on is that the Prime Minister is having to compensate for some freelancing done |
| 1:10.6 | by somebody, my money's on Jeremy Hunt, who was going around and talking to people |
| 1:16.0 | trying to... trying to... to people up after the budget. There's a lot of that going on. |
| 1:19.3 | Operation Lits. Things aren't quite so bleak as we made out last Thursday. |
| 1:24.5 | Now, I don't know this at all, but I would suspect with Jeremy Hunt, who's fundamentally a |
| 1:29.0 | remainder, would regard our membership... or leaving the EU as being an economic drag, |
| 1:34.8 | and something that you'd have the potential to repair. This is an interesting thing about |
| 1:39.4 | the SNCC Premiership. It is a coalition government he's running, and a coalition that revolves |
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