Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn's caretaker government?
Political Fix
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🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to FT Politics, a weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster from the |
| 0:10.3 | Financial Times. I'm Sebastian Pay. In this week's episode, we'll be discussing whether |
| 0:15.4 | Jeremy Corbyn's plan to form a caretaker government to stop no deal Brexit has any chance |
| 0:20.7 | of success. We'll be looking through over the Liberal Democrats and independent MPs, and |
| 0:25.7 | if this magical plan to form an alternative government fails, what other options do MPs have left |
| 0:31.2 | this autumn to stop Boris Johnson's plan? I'm delighted to be joined by our chief political |
| 0:36.0 | commentator Robert Schrimmsley, deputy opinion head to Moran the Green, and from the institute of |
| 0:40.7 | government think tank Maritha Munjak. Thank you all for joining. And if you find yourself |
| 0:45.2 | liking this episode of FT Politics, then don't forget to subscribe to all the usual channels to |
| 0:50.0 | receive it every Saturday morning. We also do like a good positive review. August is generally the |
| 0:56.4 | quiet silly season in Westminster, where stories that don't have much chance of impacting reality |
| 1:02.3 | get picked up. In the eyes of some MPs, one of those is the idea that full remainers in Parliament |
| 1:08.1 | could bring down Boris Johnson's government and replace it with a caretaker administration, |
| 1:13.3 | or, as some call it, a government of national unity. To ask for another delay in Brexit, |
| 1:18.7 | the thought is efforts to take the UK out of the EU, possibly without a deal. This idea was boosted |
| 1:24.9 | by Jeremy Corbyn this week, who said he would be willing to work with other option MPs to form a |
| 1:30.0 | temporary time-limited government with a specific aim of writing to the EU to ask for another |
| 1:34.7 | extension, and then core an election. But there are formidable challenges ahead for this plan, |
| 1:40.0 | and MPs are also looking at other ways to try and stop Mr Johnson's efforts to take the UK out of |
| 1:45.2 | the block by October 31st. So Miranda Green were very much into the weeds of process |
| 1:50.7 | ology here. Parliament is away. MPs are off-sunning themselves in Devon, Cornwall, and even some parts |
| 1:56.7 | of Europe. And a lot of them are very unhappy at Boris Johnson's maneuvers on Brexit. They think |
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