May enters Brexit hell and Labour finally budges
Political Fix
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🗓️ 9 February 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to FT Politics, a weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster from the Financial Times. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Sebastian Payne. |
| 0:16.5 | This week we'll be discussing all the latest Brexit shenanigans. |
| 0:20.1 | Theresa made's trip to Brussels, Donald Tulls' |
| 0:22.8 | in temperate remarks, no progress on the backstop, |
| 0:25.6 | and Jeremy Corbyn's letter to the Prime Minister. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm delighted to be joined by our Brussels Bureau Chief |
| 0:30.6 | in the studio, Alex Barker, columnist Robert Shimsley, Chief Political |
| 0:34.8 | Correspondent Jim Picard, and Deputy Opinion Editor Miranda Green. Thank you all for |
| 0:39.0 | joining and if you like this episode of FTT politics, don't forget to |
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| 0:46.4 | or leave us a nice review. |
| 0:48.8 | It was much the same as usual for Theresa May this week. |
| 0:52.0 | She went back to Brussels to have more talks about everyone's favorite topic the Irish border backstop and in return for going to Brussels |
| 0:59.6 | She was promised more talks all the while the clock ticks down towards |
| 1:03.4 | article 50 day but things were made a bit more difficult for the prime minister |
| 1:07.3 | thanks to comments by Donald Tusk's coup in a press conference with the Irish |
| 1:11.0 | t-shirt remarked that there was a special place in hell for those who promoted Brexit without a plan for seeing it through. |
| 1:18.0 | Q lots of anger and outrage in Westminster. |
| 1:21.0 | Sir Robert Shrims, I feel like there's not a huge amount to say because it's very much business |
| 1:25.8 | as usual for Theresa May that she's promising to do something about the Irish border |
| 1:30.1 | backstop, not remove it, but change it it but nothing has really happened in that |
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