Sloat and Thompson on the Shenanigans in the UK
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
It's been a wild few weeks in British politics: possible new elections scheduled; Brexit impending and then delayed (we think); a possible Brexit deal signed, but not yet ratified; and the personality of Boris Johnson hovering over it all like a brooding omnipresence. A couple of weeks ago, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Helen Thompson, a professor of political economy at Cambridge and one of the two principal voices of the Talking Politics podcast. They had a conversation about the state of British constitutional government, but before we had a chance to run it, a whole lot happened. So, we decided to run the whole conversation despite it being a bit upended by events, and Ben sat down with Amanda Sloat to come in and give an update on what you need to know for this conversation.
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| 1:14.6 | Remember that Boris Johnson's biggest domestic threat is not from Jeremy Corbyn, but it's |
| 1:23.0 | from Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party who have taken a very hard line approach on Brexit. |
| 1:28.0 | And so if Johnson has not delivered on Brexit by the time he goes to elections, he is vulnerable |
| 1:34.0 | in certain seats to the Brexit Party that will say we can actually deliver and get this done |
| 1:39.0 | if Johnson can't do it. |
| 1:41.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittes and this is the LawFair podcast October 26, 2019. |
| 1:48.0 | It's been a wild and woolly few weeks in British politics, possible new elections scheduled, |
| 1:55.0 | Brexit impending and then delayed. |
| 1:58.0 | We think a possible Brexit deal signed but not yet ratified and the personality of Boris Johnson |
| 2:06.0 | hovering over it all like a brooding omnipresence. |
| 2:10.0 | A couple weeks ago I sat down with Helen Thompson who is a professor of political economy at Cambridge |
| 2:17.0 | and one of the two principal voices of the Talking Politics podcast which you should all listen to. |
| 2:24.0 | We had a wonderful conversation about the state of British constitutional government and before we had a chance to run it, |
| 2:32.0 | all of this stuff happened. |
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