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🗓️ 14 March 2019
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It's been a somewhat bonkers week in Westminster. The government seems to be going into a full Brexit meltdown and it's likely that Brexit will be delayed. So, where do we go from here (00:45)? We also take a look at the Democratic Party's anti-Semitism problem (17:35) and at the end, Lara Prendergast is given a tarot reading (26:10).
With Katy Balls, James Forsyth, Peter Foster, Freddy Gray, Kate Andrews and Jennifer Cownie.
Presented by Lara Prendergast.
Produced by Cindy Yu and Alastair Thomas.
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0:20.6 | Hello and welcome to The Spectator Podcast. I'm Laura Prendergars and it's been a somewhat bonkers week here in Westminster. |
0:27.7 | The government seems to be going into full Brexit meltdown and there's even talk of Brexit being delayed. |
0:32.7 | So where do we go from here? |
0:35.0 | On the podcast we also take a look at the Democrats' anti-Semitism problem, |
0:39.5 | and at the end, I'm given a tarot reading. This week, May's government was defeated twice in votes |
0:45.8 | in the Commons. Then, government cohesion totally broke down when 13 ministers voted against the whip, |
0:51.9 | and we're now expecting an extension to the whole Brexit process. |
0:55.9 | In short, we're having a full Brexit meltdown and anything could happen, even a general election. |
1:01.4 | Here to make sense of it all is our deputy political editor Katie Balls, who spoke earlier to |
1:05.9 | James Forsyth and Peter Foster, the Telegraph's Europe editor. |
1:09.5 | James, in your cover piece this week, you |
1:11.9 | outline the possible outcomes that we can expect in Brexit now. Can you just give us a quick |
1:16.6 | taste of those? So you might think that given that Theresa May's Brexit deal has been defeated |
1:22.1 | by the biggest ever margin for any piece of government business, 230 votes, and then defeated again this week by 149 votes, |
1:30.2 | that it would be dead that you could put a fork in it, but not so fast. There are already |
1:35.1 | plans for meaningful weight free, like it to take place in the next six days, and cabinet ministers |
1:40.8 | think that they have an actual, and this isn't May loyalists of whom they are banishingly a few these days, but cabinet ministers think it they have an actual and this isn't may lawless of whom they're |
1:45.0 | banishing the few these days but cabinet ministers think it has a real chance of getting through |
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