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Politics Weekly UK

Is this the end of the Tories’ Brexit wars? Politics Weekly UK

Politics Weekly UK

The Guardian

News, Politics

4.01.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

After years of tensions, Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen this week unveiled their new Brexit deal to virtually universal praise. But is there a catch? The Guardian’s John Harris is joined by Brexit correspondent Lisa O’Carroll, columnist Rafael Behr and former No 10 chief of staff and Conservative peer Gavin Barwell to discuss. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:12.2

As Rishi Soonak managed the impossible.

0:15.2

I'm pleased to report that we have now made a decisive breakthrough.

0:22.4

After years of tension and promises that Brexit would finally be done,

0:26.8

the Conservatives seem to think that everything is now finished with the deal

0:30.4

that supposedly solves the nightmare of the Northern Irish border.

0:34.6

Will the Democratic Union this party accept it?

0:37.6

We will continue to engage but to government and we will take our time.

0:41.2

So what's different about this deal from the one that came before it?

0:44.6

And is there a catch?

0:46.6

I'm John Harris and you're listening to politics with the UK for The Guardian.

0:50.4

Joining me today are the former Downing Street Chief of Staff and current Conservative

0:58.4

here, Gavin Barwell and The Guardian columnist Raphael Baer. Hello to you both.

1:02.2

Hello. Hello, John.

1:03.8

Let's talk about someone that some of us thought we'd seen the back of Matt Hancock

1:08.4

who not so long ago cooperated with the journalist Isabel Oakshop on his

1:12.6

pandemic diaries.

1:14.2

She has now passed a huge number of WhatsApp messages that I guess you must have

1:18.6

amassed in the course of putting that book together with him.

1:21.2

She's passed them to the Daily Telegraph who have begun their coverage

1:24.0

with the allegation that Hancock rejected expert advice on COVID testing in

1:28.2

care homes.

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