Parliament Strikes Back in Britain

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🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In a battle over what kind of democracy would prevail in Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson seemed to have gained the upper hand by cutting Parliament out of Brexit — until last week. Guest: Mark Landler, the London bureau chief of The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: In Washington, scarcely a handful of Republicans have stood up to President Trump. In comparison, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has found lawmakers in his Conservative Party to be much more rebellious.Mr. Johnson has received messages of support from President Trump, and there are some obvious parallels in the rise of the two leaders. But the “bromance” between Mr. Johnson and Mr. Trump is more complex than it might seem.Mr. Johnson’s chief aide, Dominic Cummings, who appeared to revel in the feud with Parliament, has become a lightning rod for criticism of the government’s strategy.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Labaro. This is The Daily.
0:09.3	Today, in the battle over what kind of democracy would prevail in Britain, Prime Minister Boris
0:17.0	Johnson seemed to have the upper hand by cutting parliament out of Brexit. Until last week,
0:24.5	Mark Lambert on the latest from Britain.
0:32.0	It's Monday, September 9.
0:40.4	Hello, Mark. Hi, I'm Michael. Hey, there. So you're in the London beer right now.
0:48.7	I am. And you're on a landline. I am. I think this office is pretty quiet. I closed the door
0:54.3	and I don't think anyone's going to bother me. Oh, oh, you have an office now. I got a corner
0:58.9	office. I got two windows. I'm sitting here looking at double-decker buses.
1:02.6	Living the dream. Okay, we're going to get started. Are you recording? Okay, yeah, I'm recording.
1:10.3	Okay. So Mark, you just became the London beer chief after several years covering the Trump
1:15.8	administration being a White House reporter. This is quite a moment to make that leap.
1:21.0	I guess you could say it's a little bit like the frying pan to the fire metaphor.
1:25.5	There's probably more newsy situations you could perish it into, but it's kind of hard to imagine.
1:32.1	There are political fireworks in Britain this morning over a surprise move today by British
1:37.2	Prime Minister Boris Johnson to suspend parliament. Now, here's what it will do. Parliament was
1:42.7	supposed to sit again on Monday for a number of weeks, but instead this will suspend parliament
1:48.8	the week of September 10th and it won't resume until October 14th. It's just as Britain is to leave
1:54.2	the EU at the end of October. You're going to say this is an insult to democracy and deny the MPs
2:00.9	the time they need to debate a possibly vote on Brexit. No, well, that's that is completely untrue.
2:08.0	If you look at what we're doing, we're bringing forward a new legislative programme on Friday.
2:13.2	Are we going to stop for true? Are we going to save the Christy?
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