On The Brink Of A No-Deal Brexit: The Town Hall Debate

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🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Britain is now facing one of the biggest constitutional crises in its history. As Brexit looms, Intelligence Squared staged a special town hall meeting with some of the country’s most prominent political leaders. We were joined on stage by former Conservative MP and UKIP MP Douglas Carswell; Conservative MP Kenneth Clarke; Director of UK in a Changing Europe Anand Menon; MP for North Antrim for the DUP Ian Paisley Jr; and Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley Jess Phillips. The debate was chaired by the Guardian's Jonathan Freedland. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So you've arrived you head to the brasserie then the terrace cocktail don't mind if I do
0:08.5	You raise your glass to another guest because you both know the holidays just beginning.
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0:30.0	Hi Robert Beston here, almost 6th of December I'll record a tortoise
0:35.5	podcast the news meeting when I'll tell you about the most important story of the
0:39.6	year and I'll also talk to you about my new book about how to fix Britain and the West.
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0:58.0	See you then.
0:59.0	Hi I'm Daniel, producer at Intelligence Squared.
1:02.0	This week's episode is a special debate we staged on Brexit.
1:06.0	With our exit date fast approaching, we decided to stage something slightly different this time,
1:11.0	so we put together a major town hall debate. This time we gave our audience far more of a chance to ask questions
1:17.2	directly to our panel of top experts and politicians. On stage we had the
1:21.2	Senior Conservative MP and former Minister Kenneth Clark.
1:24.4	We had Jess Phillips, the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley.
1:28.0	We had Ann and Menon, the head of a top UK Brexit-related think tank,
1:32.3	Douglas Carswell, the former UKIP MP and Ian Paisley
1:35.6	Jr. of the Democratic Unionist Party.
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