To leave or remain

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In his final Opinion podcast, host Tim Montgomerie is joined by Rachel Sylvester, Mathew Parris and Ann Treneman. Matthew Parris:Now that we're having to take seriously the possibility (though not, I think, the likelihood) that Britain may vote to leave the EU, we need to look beyond that possible Leave vote. What happens then? The government will have to begin a lengthy negotiation about the terms of our departure, with (of course) no negotiating cards to play at all. Much - a huge amount - will hang on the terms we are finally able to secure. It's perfectly possible voters who voted in principle to leave will find those terms unacceptable in practice. There will have to be a second referendum.Ann Treneman:What is Jeremy Corbyn playing at? Going on holiday (and to Scotland!) when he should be kissing the Queen's hand and becoming a privy councillor. It seems that we knew he was a republican but, hey, he actually seems to be a republican! Will Corbyn, in his own way, make us grow up as to how we...

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1:00.0	The party conferences are over and we're now back in the Times Towers in London for the latest opinion podcast.
1:08.0	Welcome, my name is Tim Montgomery and today I'm joined by Rachel Sylvester, Matthew Paris and Anne Trennerman.
1:15.0	Here are our topics for this week.
1:18.0	Now that we're having to think seriously about the possibility, at least the possibility, that Britain might vote to leave the EU
1:25.9	I think we need to look past a possible leave vote and ask what then the British government would
1:30.5	have to negotiate terms for departure?
1:34.0	Shouldn't those terms be put to the British people just as the terms that David Cameron is
1:38.9	negotiating are going to be put? In other words, wouldn't we have to have a second referendum?
1:45.0	I scorned that idea in the Times three or four months ago.
1:48.0	I'm coming to the conclusion that we might.
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