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Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips

Review of the political year

Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips

Sky News

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.0156 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In the final episode of 2019, Adam Boulton and guests review a tumultuous year in British politics.
Best and worst political moments? The star of 2019? Who will be most missed? What next for Brexit? And predictions for 2020. Joining Adam in the studio are Lee Jones from Queen Mary University in London and co-founder of The Full Brexit; Director of the British Foreign Policy Group Sophia Gaston and Sky's chief political correspondent Jon Craig.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The world is becoming increasingly complex and volatile.

0:03.5

How can we make sense of it all?

0:04.9

I'm Richard Engelt.

0:05.7

And I'm Yalda Hekeem.

0:06.7

And we're the top international correspondents at NBC News and Sky News.

0:10.9

And we present Sky News's latest podcast, The World.

0:14.6

Each week will cut through the noise to guide you through the week's global events

0:18.6

and explain to you why what happens out there

0:22.4

matters to you wherever you are.

0:24.5

Listen now to the world with Richard Engel and me Yalda Hakim wherever you get your podcasts.

0:36.1

Hello, welcome to your politics podcast Politics Podcasts from Sky News.

0:39.6

Our final one in what has been a tumultuous year,

0:44.3

we got through two prime ministers, two Brexit delays, at least,

0:48.0

countless commons votes, one general election,

0:50.9

and a partridge in a pear tree, as is obligatory in this time of year.

0:55.0

Well, joining me to reflect on the political year gone by 2019 are Lee Jones from Queen Mary

1:00.9

University of London and co-founder of the full Brexit.

1:06.0

And Sophia Gaston, who is director of the British Foreign Policy Group.

1:10.0

Also here, Sky's chief political correspondent,

1:13.2

John Craig. Welcome to you all.

1:20.7

Well, we're going to start off, best political moment of the year. Ladies first.

1:30.9

Gosh, well, I was actually, I was looking through this rather depressing Wikipedia article, actually, that sums up everything that happened

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