Northern Ireland: Brexit's biggest headache
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer is heading to Belfast and believes his party can help unlock the stalemate there. What does it take to make Brexit's biggest headache - the question of Northern Ireland - go away?
And could you explain it if you needed to ? We set Lewis Goodall to the challenge with a list of banned words...
And Tony Blair's former Chief of Staff in No.10, Jonathan Powell, helps demystify one of the sharpest political thorns in the British Isles.
Socials: Georgia Foxwell
Video: Will Gibson-Smith
Planning: Alex Barnett
Production: Gabriel Radus
Editor: Tom Hughes
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | Day like today, I mean, it's not a day for sort of sound bites, really. |
| 0:17.1 | We can leave those at home, but I feel the hand of history upon our shoulder. |
| 0:23.1 | The greatest non-soundbite soundbite ever from Tony Blair, that was 25 years ago, |
| 0:28.6 | on the eve of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, which brought peace to the parties in Northern Ireland. |
| 0:35.6 | And maybe there is a little bit of progress being made now on another intractable problem in Northern Ireland. And maybe there is a little bit of progress being made now |
| 0:38.6 | on another intractable problem in Northern Ireland. |
| 0:42.3 | So today on the newsagents, |
| 0:44.1 | we're going to try and walk you through something |
| 0:46.0 | that probably makes your head hurt |
| 0:48.4 | that has you reaching for a stiff drink or a large coffee. |
| 0:52.6 | But we're going to spell out |
| 0:54.1 | what the Northern Ireland protocol actually means, |
| 0:58.0 | why it's proving such a headache to so many people, |
| 1:01.7 | and whether we are inching closer to something that might look like a solution. |
| 1:06.9 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:11.5 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:13.4 | It's John. |
| 1:14.4 | It's Emily. |
| 1:15.1 | And it's Lewis. |
| 1:15.8 | And we are going to talk Northern Ireland, but free of jargon, if we can. |
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