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Political Fix

Labour edges towards a second referendum and can 'Norway Plus' fly?

Political Fix

Financial Times

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

John McDonnell tipped the Labour party towards supporting a second Brexit referendum this week. Does this make it any more likely to happen? And we dig into the "Norway Plus" model and discuss whether it is the Brexit plan B Westminster is hunting for. Presented by Sebastian Payne. With Jim Pickard, Robert Shrimsley, Martin Sandbu and Miranda Green. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Harry Robertson

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0:00.0

Welcome to F.T. Politics, a weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster from the Financial Times.

0:13.4

I'm Sebastian Payne.

0:14.8

In this episode, we'll be discussing whether the prospect of a second referendum are gradually

0:19.4

rising and whether the UK is heading for a Norway-style relationship with the EU after Brexit.

0:25.2

I'm delighted to be joined by Jim Picard, our chief political correspondent, columnist Robert Shrimsley,

0:30.5

Economic commentator Martin Sandbou, and Deputy Peter Miranda Green.

0:34.4

Thank you all for joining. If you like this episode of FT Politics,

0:37.8

then don't forget to subscribe through all the virtual channels to receive it

0:41.0

every Saturday morning. If you're feeling

0:43.0

particularly generous then do leave us a nice review on the iTunes store.

0:47.0

So once again it's Brexit and nothing else in the news.

0:51.0

And one of the big stories this week is where the Labour Party is beginning to swing

0:54.4

round towards supporting a second referendum or a so-called people's vote.

0:58.4

There were some very interesting comments from John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor

1:02.0

who seems to be gradually changing the

1:04.0

party's position, but is this fundamentally going to mean anything if and when Theresa May's

1:08.6

deal comes to the House of Commons in a couple of weeks time?

1:11.6

Jim Picard, let's begin with this John McDonnell

1:13.3

interview now he's obviously very much a power base within the Labour Party he has a

1:17.4

history of laying the groundwork for policies for Jeremy Corbyn the actual

1:21.4

leader to change party policy on this.

1:23.7

He was talking about Brexit this week, what did he say?

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