Separate weighs: Brexit, one year on
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The Economist
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🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Trade is down, red tape is up, details of regulatory harmony are still being hammered out. Britain may be less divided about it, but the benefits of the divorce are still to be seized. For the clinically vulnerable, covid restrictions go beyond government mandates; our correspondent shares a personal view. And a visit to mainland Singapore’s last rural village.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:08.7 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:14.6 | COVID restrictions have come and gone in many jurisdictions, but for one group freedom |
| 0:22.4 | still seems distant, the clinically vulnerable. Our correspondent shares a personal view |
| 0:27.6 | on living with risks that never subside. |
| 0:32.8 | And Singapore was once a hodgepodge of rural villages. Now among the skyscrapers, just |
| 0:38.2 | one of them remains. We pay a visit to the woman who owns and runs it, asking what will |
| 0:43.3 | be lost if it too is swallowed up. But first, back on Christmas Eve of 2020, Britain's |
| 1:02.7 | Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed a last-minute trade and cooperation agreement with the European |
| 1:07.8 | Union. A hard one breaks it deal. |
| 1:10.7 | And so I'm very pleased to tell you this afternoon that we have completed a comprehensive |
| 1:16.7 | Canada-style free trade deal between the UK and the EU. |
| 1:21.9 | He made big promises of easy trade with the bloc without tariffs or non-tariff barriers, |
| 1:27.5 | having cake in his famed phrasology and eating it. |
| 1:30.9 | A deal, which will, if anything, allow our companies and our exporters to do even more |
| 1:36.1 | business with our European friends. |
| 1:38.3 | Mr Johnson assured the public that the arrangement came with low costs, Britain could set standards |
| 1:43.5 | for the benefit of its own businesses. |
| 1:45.5 | We've taken back control of our laws and our destiny. We've taken back control of every |
| 1:50.9 | jot and title of our regulation in a way that is complete and unfettered. |
| 1:58.2 | On the EU side of the table, there was a little less enthusiasm. |
| 2:02.5 | At the end of a successful negotiations journey, I normally feel joy. |
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