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Surveillance: Chances of No-Deal Brexit Small, Tony Blair Says

Bloomberg Surveillance

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🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Tony Blair, Former U.K. Prime Minister, joins Francine Lacqua and Tom Keene on Bloomberg Surveillance TV to discuss Brexit. Tim Culpan, Bloomberg Opinion Columnist, says cybersecurity has played a role in Huawei's CFO's arrest. David Rubenstein, The Carlyle Group Co-Founder & Co-Executive Chairman, reflects on the global admiration for former President George H.W. Bush. Tina Davis, Bloomberg Energy & Commodities Americas, joins us to wrap headlines from the OPEC+ meetings. 

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behind your EV batteries environmental impact, behind sand. Yeah, sand, you get context.

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And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg.com to get context. Welcome to the Bloomberg surveillance podcast. I'm Tom Keene.

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Daily, we bring you insight from the best in economics finance investment and international relations find

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Bloomberg And of the

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the morning we've been we're delighted to be

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interview of the morning we've been we're delighted to be joined by the former UK

0:51.5

Prime Minister he is at Tony Blair who opposes Brexit

0:54.7

and of course has campaigned for a second referendum. Mr Tony Blair, thank you for

0:59.3

joining a surveillance once again. What is the chance now of a no deal?

1:04.6

Is it 50-50?

1:05.8

I think the chances of a no deal are very small actually because really what's happened in the in the past few days

1:15.7

is that Parliament in a sense has taken charge of this process and there was a defeat

1:21.2

for the government the other night, which effectively means that Parliament now has the right to go through all the different options on Brexit.

1:29.0

So I think what will happen is it's highly unlikely that her deal will pass because it's being attacked

1:34.5

on many different fronts by many different groups but then I think Parliament will

1:40.0

go through what are all the potential alternatives and that will include

1:44.4

obviously the possibility that if Parliament can't reach an agreement if there's a

1:48.3

blockage essentially in Parliament then we go back to the people in order for the issue to be resolved and resolved

1:55.2

finally so but I don't think there's a majority in Parliament for no deal I think on

2:00.9

the contrary there's a big majority in Parliament against no deal.

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