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TALKING POLITICS

Patience Wheatcroft/Brexit

TALKING POLITICS

Catherine Carr

News, News & Politics

4.72.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In the week Brexit clears its first big parliamentary hurdle, we talk to prominent Remainer and Tory rebel Patience Wheatcroft about the view from the Lords and what it's like to be on the receiving end of the wrath of the Brexiteers. Plus we're joined by Helen and the two Chrises to talk about IndyRef2 and whether Project Fear could possibly work second time round. Is the UK finished? We try to decide.

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0:00.0

Hello my name is David Ronserman and this is Talking Politics.

0:07.0

This week for us as I suppose for quite a few other people it's going to be Brexit week.

0:16.1

I on this weird Tuesday being not Wednesday. We're at the Tour with Manifesto for 2015 this

0:22.2

morning. We're going to talk with Helen, Chris Brook and Chris Bickerton who are both

0:26.5

here together in the same room we think for the first time. My memory, the Conservative

0:30.0

party manifesto is different from Helen's because I remember it as being all about bypassing

0:33.5

it. All very carefully rooted through marginal seats. We're going to talk about where we are

0:37.7

with Brexit and also what we think Nicola Sturgeon's commitment to a second, indie referendum

0:43.2

means. I want more in Glasgow. It's me. I want to go to the UK. I want to go to the UK.

0:49.4

I want Sturgeon. What do you mean?

0:55.1

In a little bit we will be talking to patients Weakroft, Conservative peer in the House of

0:59.7

Lords who has been one of the leading in Tory party terms rebels over the past few months.

1:05.9

She is a passionate remainer and we're going to hear about what it's like to be a passionate

1:09.5

remainer inside the Conservative party. First we've had a few months in which Gina Miller

1:15.8

won her court case. So the government had to take this to the commons. The Lords then

1:21.0

rebelled. We had a couple of amendments passed which were then rejected again by the House

1:25.1

of Commons. The Lords eventually agreed that they had no more sticks that they could hit

1:31.4

the government with and we are where we are which is at some point this month. Article

1:35.1

50 is going to be triggered. So what would the last few months for? How is any of this

1:39.4

different from where we were before Christmas?

1:41.8

I think the difference is that theiser may's hand has been significantly strengthened

1:45.7

in terms of domestic politics anyway by what's happened. First of all she has now made

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