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Head to octopusevo.com to get.T. Politics, the Financial Times is podcast on British politics.

I'm Sebastian Payne and in the first of our summer specials

we're breaking out of the new cycle to take a look at some of the big policy questions

facing the UK. This week we'll be starting with everyone's favorite topic, Brexit.

It's been a year since the UK voted to leave the EU

and the negotiations are well underway.

But how much do we know about what Brexit actually means, what it's going to look like,

when will it take pace and what the UK's future on the other side is going to be.

To dive into this, I'm delighted to be joined by Alex Barker Barker the F.T. Brussels Bureau Chief,

our business editor Sarah Gordon and Henry Newman director of the Open Europe

Think Tank. Thank you all for joining. So let's begin with what we know about Brexit. 52% of British voters

back leaving the EU in the referendum last June and hasn't been any notable change in

public opinion since then.

So the government is pushing ahead with the will of the people.

Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty was triggered at the end of March,

so unless anything substantial changes we are leaving in March 2019.

The initial round of talks between Michelle Barnier and David Davis haven't produced much progress.

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