Tricky Brexit decisions and the return of grammar schools
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:42.0 | I'm Sebastian Payne and in this week's episode |
| 0:44.6 | we're going to be discussing whether Britain is set to leave the single market and |
| 0:48.0 | Theresa May's push for bringing back grammar screws. To do this I'm delighted to be joined by George Parker |
| 0:54.8 | our political editor who's back in action after the summer, Chris Charles the |
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| 1:02.2 | Miranda Green, a former education correspondent and now all-round commentator. |
| 1:07.0 | Thank you all for joining. |
| 1:09.0 | Westminster kicked back into action this week and Brexit was unsurprisingly top of the agenda. |
| 1:14.4 | David Davis, Britain's new Brexit Secretary, delivered his debut statement at the |
| 1:18.9 | dispatch box in the House of Commons. |
| 1:20.9 | Helpfully, he explained that Brexit simply means leaving the |
| 1:24.2 | European Union. Who knew? There were a few solid details on how, when or what Brexit |
| 1:29.9 | is going to look like, but Mr Davis did inadvertently suggest Britain would eventually be pulling |
| 1:34.8 | out of the single market to the dismay of remain supporting MPs and some businesses. |
| 1:40.0 | Sir George Parker, Mr Davis is in charge of Britain's Brexit negotiations or so we're told, |
| 1:45.3 | and having spent the summer deliberating over what it's actually going to be, |
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