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🗓️ 19 February 2016
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Spectator podcast special: David Cameron's EU deal
Released 19 February 2016
With Isabel Hardman in Brussels and James Forsyth in London. Presented by Fraser Nelson
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0:00.0 | This is The View from 22 from The Spectator. |
0:02.7 | Subscribe from just £1 a week at spectator.co.uk. |
0:11.8 | Welcome to a Spectator podcast special. |
0:14.6 | David Cameron has finally agreed his deal for Britain to stay in the European Union or so he hopes. |
0:22.9 | He's going to come back to London and call a cabinet meeting. And we've got Isabel Hardman in Brussels and James Forsyth in London |
0:28.8 | to discuss it. I'm Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator. And I guess I'll start by asking you, |
0:34.9 | Isabel, what has today been like? He started waiting for a breakfast that never arrived. |
0:39.3 | And when you met David Cameron, did he look as stressed and as worried as he looked in the papers this morning? |
0:45.3 | We have spent most of today thinking about food, actually, because the EU leaders were supposed to have a breakfast, |
0:50.3 | then became brunch, then became lunch, afternoon tea, and finally they sat down to a slightly |
0:55.0 | delayed supper where they reached their agreement. David Cameron's officials have really been |
1:01.1 | avoiding us today, actually. We've had very little information on what's going on at all until the |
1:06.1 | deal was struck. And there have been a number of-ups, particularly we understand over the proposals |
1:12.2 | on benefits, which have now been agreed as a seven-year period for an emergency break for |
1:17.9 | EU migrants and curbs on child benefit as well. But it has been a day where very little |
1:22.7 | progress seem to be being made right up until this evening. And James, and looking at the deal as much as we know |
1:29.4 | now, we haven't had all the details, but we do know about child benefits. They're going to be |
1:34.0 | index links to the countries where they're paid, and we've got the emergency break and things. Do |
1:40.1 | you think it's enough? Well, I do think it meets the referendum a slam dunk. |
1:45.0 | I think Michael Gove, who David Cameron admitted in his press conference, will now back |
1:49.0 | Britain leaving the EU, is indicative of that. |
1:52.0 | Michael Gove was on the Eurosceptic wing of a Conservative Party, no doubt about that. |
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