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The Documentary Podcast

One hundred days of Brexit

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

How ‘get Brexit done’ turned into ‘StayatHome’ through the experiences of four first time MPs. They represent constituencies across the North of England – places where voters had switched traditional allegiances in great numbers. Conservative MP Simon Fell, won in Barrow-in-Furness, Olivia Blake, the newly elected Labour MP for Sheffield Hallam, Charlotte Nichols who held on narrowly against the Brexit tide in Warrington North and Richard Holden who took the North West Durham seat from Labour.

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0:00.0

Tonight to 10 were live in Downing Street where Boris Johnson is celebrating the biggest conservative victory in over 30 years.

0:09.0

It's a new chapter for the United Kingdom.

0:12.0

Good afternoon. This morning I went to Buckingham Palace and I am forming a new government.

0:20.0

Voters had elected new members of parliament in December and

0:24.0

Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to get Brexit done.

0:27.8

Tonight we are leaving the European Union.

0:31.6

But at the same time something else was beginning to

0:34.4

happen. A deadly virus was about to paralyze countries across the world.

0:39.5

We have made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.

0:47.0

It would push Brexit, the subject that had dominated the political life of the UK for three years right out of the spotlight.

0:56.8

When we started making this program it was all going to be about Brexit but how quickly that changed.

1:05.4

This is the BBC World Service.

1:07.9

I'm Kaz Graham and this is 100 days of Brexit. And as it turns out, 100 days of Brexit and as it turns out 100 days of COVID-19 too.

1:17.0

Since January we've followed four new members of the British Parliament, representing places where

1:24.3

voters have switched traditional political party loyalties. They're all in the

1:28.8

north of England. Imagine that region as a square box. The top left-hand corner of that box is 300 miles from London on the northwest coast of England.

1:40.0

It's a town called Barrow Infurnis and it's where Simon Fell is the new conservative MP.

1:47.0

This is a very strange way to be doing the job of an MP.

1:51.0

You know, you want to be out in your community. You want to be helping people

1:56.1

and being visible and you're providing that reassurance but the very nature of this

2:00.8

crisis means that actually you can't do that.

2:04.0

Down to the bottom left-hand corner of the box and we find Warrington, roughly between

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