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May gets backing for Brexit plan

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Theresa May says the Cabinet has reached an agreement on what kind of relationship Britain wants to have with the EU. Ministers have signed up to a plan to create a free trade area for industrial and agricultural goods. The BBC’s Brussels reporter Adam Fleming and Political Correspondent Chris Mason discuss the implications.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Radio 5 Live. Brexit cast.

0:04.4

Brexit cast. From BBC 5 Live and BBC News.

0:08.8

Yes, hello. It's not often at gone 11 o'clock on a Friday night,

0:13.7

when I'm perched here on the late shift as I am tonight,

0:15.8

that politics is really moving. Usually when I'm sitting in this studio

0:19.8

or in this newsroom at Westminster at this time on Friday night,

0:22.0

I'm very aware that I'm working and nobody else seems to be.

0:24.5

But, politics tonight, Adam, is moving and, you know,

0:29.1

we follow every, how shall I put this, politely,

0:32.2

cough and tickle of the Brexit process,

0:35.3

and sometimes it can be done.

0:36.4

Oh, I've been any tickles.

0:37.5

All right, you know, fair enough.

0:39.2

It can be quite slow moving sometimes, quite incremental.

0:42.3

And yet, today, we have this statement from Downing Street.

0:46.1

And the choreography, quite interesting on all of this,

0:49.0

in that they hold themselves up in checkers for 12 hours.

0:52.4

And then an hour before they all get their phones back,

0:54.8

cabinet ministers and can leave and start texting.

0:57.3

And they have started texting.

0:58.3

I've just had a text from a cabinet minister in the last 10 or 15 minutes.

1:02.0

Downing Street, what's happened there?

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