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VAT CHAT

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Adam are joined by the Financial Times Economics Editor Chris Giles and they try and figure out what will happen about VAT after Brexit... And will they ever track down jet-setting Katya?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Chris, I hope you are going to be quoting me correctly on this week's Brexit cast because there's

0:04.7

been a mass outbreak of sort of misquotation in Brussels this week. How's that?

0:10.0

Yeah, so we had Gunter Ertinger, the Budget Commissioner, who's from Germany, saying that the

0:15.5

financial markets will teach voters of Italy a lesson for what happens if they vote for

0:20.7

populous parties, which then had to clarify. Then we had another German and MEP this time saying

0:27.9

that the Troika remember the EU, the European Central Bank, and IMF would have to march into Rome

0:34.6

and take over the finance ministry, which she then also had to clarify. And then yesterday on Thursday

0:40.0

we had Jean-Claude Juncker, appearing to say that Italians had to work harder and be less corrupt.

0:45.6

But that's kind of the words they used, but not what he meant. So please make sure as you press

0:50.3

the record button and do not edit me in any way. My shorthand will be poised. Brexit cast. Brexit cast.

0:56.9

From BBC Five Life and BBC News. Brexit means Brexit. Breaking up is hard. The people voted and

1:06.0

they have to get on with it a process which I cannot describe as a dog's Brexit. Brexit means Brexit,

1:12.4

but what does Brexit mean? Hello Brexit casters, it is Adam Fleming in Brussels.

1:18.4

And it is Chris Mason in Westminster. And it's Chris Jones and the economics editor of

1:23.2

the Financial Times in Westminster 2. Oh two Chris's. Two Chris's too. How would you like to refer to

1:29.3

multiple Chris's? That's going to have to be GNM I think, isn't it? Chris G and Chris M.

1:34.6

Maybe that's the way. So there's no law here this week because it's half term, it parliamentary recess,

1:39.1

so no law or a Coonsburg. And you have the studio to yourself at that end as well, Adam.

1:44.0

Oh yeah, who knows where a catcher has ended up now because it's been a week of political turmoil

1:48.3

across the EU with they're not being a government and then they're being a government in Italy

1:52.4

and then they're being a different government with a different Prime Minister in Spain. And last

1:56.1

I heard, catcher was midair between the two. And it's a report on the shenanigans. Oh and then

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