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ποΈ 11 December 2020
β±οΈ 32 minutes
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On today's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea look at the big decision β deal or no deal β facing the Brexit negotiators. Then, in You Ask Us, they take your question on whether there's any path through the polling thorns for Labour in 2021.
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0:24.0 | I'm Alva and I'm Stephen and I'm a noosh. You're listening to the new states from |
0:37.4 | podcast. On today's episode we discuss deal or no deal and you ask us will 2021 be a bad year for labour in the polls? |
0:47.0 | So Boris Johnson is back from Brussels. |
0:52.0 | So Boris Johnson is back from Brussels and the word on the street or the word from |
0:57.9 | number 10 and from the EU is that very large gaps remain is the phrase that's being used in terms of the UK and EU's |
1:07.3 | positions and a trade deal is still looking very unlikely the new deadline is Sunday. Stephen I think you and I in a |
1:16.1 | very healthy way have slightly differing instincts on this like I mean I have to say |
1:21.1 | most commentators your view is very much that no deal is by far looking like the most likely outcome at this stage |
1:29.1 | Yeah, I got very nice and very kind but also very funny email in response to |
1:33.3 | more Incor where they were just like they were like I'm loving the |
1:35.5 | combination of uppers and downers at the moment where like you're like yeah we're |
1:39.8 | not going to have a deal and then I have it like here's why I think we'll have a |
1:42.2 | deal they're like they're like you're doing a real like sort of almost negging approach to retaining readers on our people. |
1:48.0 | A good cop, bad cop. So I essentially think right then what this all comes down to is do you think |
1:55.6 | that Boris Johnson is a man of no principal or one principal right because right one |
2:02.0 | the sort of no principal interpretation of last year is |
2:05.1 | that like the government spent, indeed the Conservatives party spent like three years in |
2:10.3 | this dream world where you can fix the Irish border without either having regulatory |
2:15.3 | alignment between the whole of the United Kingdom and the EU. |
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