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Political Fix

The political impact of Brussels and the return of the Tory wars

Political Fix

Financial Times

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Roula Khalaf, Gideon Rachman, George Parker and Janan Ganesh of the Financial Times discuss how the Brussels terrorist attacks will affect global politics, and why the Conservative party has entered into another civil war. Presented by Sebastian Payne.

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Some shows may have ads. Welcome to F.T. Politics, a weekly podcast on British politics from the Financial Times.

0:30.0

I'm Sebastian Payne, digital comment editor, and this week we'll be discussing the political impact of the terrorist attacks in Brussels and the latest round of Tory Wars.

0:40.0

Do this, I'm delighted to be joined by the FT's deputy editor Rula Kalaf, political

0:47.6

editor George Parker, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator Gideon Rackman and our political

0:52.1

columnist Janan Ganesh. Thank you all for joining.

0:55.0

So we will begin with the appalling events that took place in Brussels this week.

1:00.0

At least 34 people are dead after a series of bombs were set up in the Belgian capital

1:05.3

and the terrorist group known as ISIS have claimed responsibility for it.

1:09.2

Now the events could not have happened in a more volatile time in global politics, not least with the rise of Donald Trump and populism in America

1:16.9

the upcoming referendum on Britain's EU membership and the growing migrant

1:21.2

crisis so we're going to try and unpick this up again with Rula Klaff.

1:24.6

And what did you make of the global response

1:27.2

to the process attacks?

1:28.2

Very similar to what we heard after we had the events in Paris last year with people talking more about European

1:35.1

security, more shared intelligence and the question is you know is this going to be

1:40.4

a frequent series of these events now or is this still just an

1:44.0

occasional one-off thing in your view? I think the emerging view after Brussels and

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