Tory tribes go back to war
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Boris Johnson found himself in another parliamentary stand-off over Brexit legislation this week, and eventually found a compromise with rebellious Conservative MPs. Why is the prime minister struggling with his party and is he becoming a diminished figure in Westminster? Plus, with the takeover by US chipmaker Nvidia of British-based chip designer Arm, and Hitachi's decision to withdraw from a major nuclear power project in Wales, does the UK have a coherent industrial policy?
Presented by Sebastian Payne, with George Parker, Robert Shrimsley, Jim Pickard and Peggy Hollinger. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Josh de la Mare. The sound engineer is Breen Turner. The editors were Liam Nolan and Aimee Keane. Music by Metaphor Music.
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| 0:00.0 | Boris Johnson found himself in boiling water this week as MPs in his own party and the |
| 0:06.8 | opposition laid into his plans to undermine the Brexit withdrawal agreement. |
| 0:12.0 | This is his deal. This is his deal. |
| 0:13.4 | It's his mess. It's his failure. |
| 0:15.7 | For the first time in his life, it's time to take responsibility. |
| 0:20.0 | It's time to fess up. |
| 0:21.6 | Either he wasn't straight with the country about the deal in the first place, |
| 0:25.7 | or he didn't understand it. |
| 0:30.2 | Welcome to Payne's politics, your essential insider guide to what's happening in British politics from the Financial Times, with me Sebastian Payne. |
| 0:39.0 | Today I'll be looking at the discontent in Parliament about Number 10's Brexit plans |
| 0:44.3 | highlighted by Shadow Minister Ed Milobad at the top there and increasingly quickly |
| 0:49.1 | relations between the Prime Minister and his MPs with political editor George Parker and columnist Robert Shrimsley. |
| 0:57.6 | And later I'll be asking with NVIDIA's takeover of the British-based Chip designer Arm and Hitachi's decision to pull out of a major British nuclear project, |
| 1:07.0 | does the UK have any coherent industrial strategy? |
| 1:11.0 | Joining me to discuss this is Chief Political Correspondent Jim Picard and |
| 1:14.5 | Business Editor Peggy Hollinger. But before all of that, George and Robert, |
| 1:19.8 | welcome back to the podcast. Morning. |
| 1:23.5 | Hi, Seth. |
| 1:24.7 | So it feels like it's been somewhat business as normal |
| 1:27.2 | in Parliament this week with Tory MPs rowing, |
| 1:30.0 | being angry behind the scenes. |
| 1:31.8 | I feel like we've seen quite a lot of each other in the House of Commons |
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