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Political Fix

Theresa May's Brexit decisions and Ukip leadership race

Political Fix

Financial Times

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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With Henry Mance and James Blitz of the Financial Times. 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.

0:29.0

I'm Sebastian Payne, digital comment editor.

0:32.0

In this week's episode we're going to be discussing

0:34.2

Theresa May's latest Brexit manoeuvres or the lack of them and UKIP's ongoing leadership

0:39.2

contest. To do this, I'm delighted to be joined by James Blitz, our Whitehall editor and Henry Mann's the FT's political correspondent.

0:46.6

Thank you all for joining. So we'll go back to Brexit. The summer is over, Theresa May's back from her holidays,

0:54.0

and it looks if there's some signs of what the government is actually going to do on Brexit.

0:58.0

Since that vote on June 23rd to leave the EU,

1:01.0

there's been very little indication from the government or the

1:04.5

cabinet about what Brexit is going to look like and how it's going to be

1:08.4

achieved. We saw a little bit of that this week with all the cabinet

1:11.8

trooping off to checkers where they had a

1:13.6

meeting and out that meeting emerged a few key things. Now James there was no specific

1:18.8

detail here and I don't think we're going to get any detail for a while but we did get a few things it's going to be no parliamentary vote on Article 50.

1:26.2

They're going to prioritize cutting migration over retaining full access to the

1:30.8

single market and Britain is going to be looking for a bespoke

1:34.6

deal from the EU it doesn't want a Norway style or a Switzerland style it wants its

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