The No-Deal Brexit Reality
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🗓️ 30 August 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Helen and Stephen discuss the coming autumn crunch over Brexit and how the parliamentary votes over the deal will go. Then, Helen talks to director Jude Christian about her upcoming production othellomacbeth and the ways in which we politicise Shakespeare. Finally, they tackle a listener question: should Vince Cable resign?
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Further reading:
—Helen's cover story on how Britain's political culture turned toxic
—Stephen's run down on the Labour Leavers in parliament
—The Graham Stringer deselection row explained
—Stephen's column on the Lib Dems
—More information and tickets for othellomacbeth
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| 1:14.0 | Search AON Global Catastrophe Recap to get started. Hi I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and welcome to the news from podcast. This week we talk about Brexit. What's the mass? Will it ever work out? News Stephen Parliament is back next week and do you know what else that means is back? |
| 1:52.4 | Our juttering march towards a chaotic Brexit. back next week and do you know what else that means is back? |
| 1:52.8 | Are juttering march towards a chaotic Brexit? |
| 1:55.3 | Yes, yes it is. |
| 1:56.7 | So can I check in on that because obviously the big story of the week in political terms |
| 2:00.5 | is we've got a trade deal lined up with South Africa. |
| 2:04.0 | Righty excited about that. |
| 2:06.0 | Big bonus coming for Liam Fox come Christmas time. |
| 2:08.0 | But how are the old votes looking? |
| 2:11.0 | Because I see something about it being kicked back from the |
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