Two Brexit tantrums and one year on from the botched election
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:14.2 | Welcome to F.T. Politics, the Financial Times's weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster. I'm Sebastian Payne. |
| 0:15.7 | In this week's episode we'll be discussing the dual tantrums by David Davis and Boris Johnson |
| 0:20.9 | and a year on from that delightful general election. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm delighted to be joined by George Parker, |
| 0:26.2 | our political editor, Whitehall editor James Blitz, |
| 0:29.0 | editorial director Robert Shrimsdy and Deputy Opinion Editor Miranda Green. |
| 0:33.2 | Thank you all for joining. |
| 0:34.4 | And as ever if you like this episode of F.T. politics, |
| 0:37.4 | don't forget to subscribe through all the usual channels |
| 0:39.8 | to receive it every Saturday morning. |
| 0:42.4 | It was a week of high drama with Brexit which not |
| 0:45.5 | much changed. The question of the government's backstop solution to the |
| 0:49.2 | Irish border conundrum came to a head where David Davis staking out a clear positioning |
| 0:54.4 | and threatening to resign and then he gave in. We also had some leaked recordings from |
| 0:59.1 | Boris Johnson who was sickly recorded with some choice comments about the state of Brexit and the Treasury |
| 1:04.5 | urging a room for Thatcherites to take the fight to the enemy within. |
| 1:08.8 | But after all that, Theresa Me is still standing and has actually got her way and her Brexit vision is still on track sort of. |
| 1:15.8 | George Parker let's begin with the David Davis roller coaster that was Thursday. |
| 1:20.3 | They were a delightful day that was for us to ought to follow. |
| 1:22.8 | So the Brexit Secretary, the man who is notionally in charge of all these negotiations, came |
| 1:28.0 | to a head with his disagreements with the Prime Minister that on this question of how to solve |
| 1:32.2 | the Irish border, keeping a soft border |
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