May's big Brexit moment and Trump's arrival on the world stage
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do you hear that? |
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| 0:24.8 | zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. Welcome to FT Politics, a weekly podcast on British politics from the Financial Times. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm Sebastian Payne and in this week's episode we'll be discussing |
| 0:44.7 | Theresa May's big Brexit speech on what Donald Trump's arrival means for the rest of the world. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm joined by political editor George Parker, Chief Political Correspondent Jim Picard, Chief |
| 0:55.1 | Political Commentator Philip Stevens, and our company's editor Brooke Masters. |
| 1:00.0 | So Theresa May has been dubbed Theresa maybe by some of her detractors for her inability to take big decisions |
| 1:06.1 | and hard stands. The Prime Minister tried to put that to an end this week where they forced for |
| 1:10.5 | some say bold speech on Brexit. |
| 1:13.4 | She announced without a quivocation that the UK will be pursuing a clean break with the EU |
| 1:18.5 | by leaving the single market and most likely leaving the customs union too. |
| 1:22.5 | She threatened that Britain could become the Singapore of Europe by lowering taxes and regulation |
| 1:28.0 | if it did not get a good deal from the EU. |
| 1:31.1 | Mrs May then hopped on a plane to Davos to deliver her message of |
| 1:34.2 | reforming capitalism to the global elite she so despises. George Parker I think on |
| 1:39.4 | balance it's been a good week for Theresa May, at least at the home perspective. |
| 1:43.6 | Her speech seemed to go down well. |
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