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Viewsroom: Brexit breakups

Viewsroom

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4.458 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Foreign carmakers are closing some UK plants as lawmakers defect from both the Labour and ruling Tory parties. How will this affect the looming deadline to quit the EU? Plus: Vegan diets are more than a fad.     See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.9

Welcome to the Views Room, a weekly podcast from Reuters Breaking Views.

0:33.5

I'm Jennifer Sabah.

0:34.8

In this edition, my colleagues in London will discuss the UK's Brexit mess as political parties fragment and businesses start leaving.

0:42.2

Then, Anthony Curry will talk with Amy Donnellin about how vegan and vegetarian diets are benefiting from climate change.

0:49.6

Welcome to the Breaking Views podcast. This is Swaha Patnike in London, and I'm joined today by Neil Unmark and Liam Proud. Both have been writing about Brexit-related issues. Neil, may I kick off with you? Could you just sort of lay out the state of play for us because things have been in flux for a long time, but it's coming to ahead.

1:08.4

Sure. Well, things are coming to ahead. Theresa May is in Brussels trying to negotiate a better deal, part of her withdrawal deal.

1:15.5

That may not achieve very much, but back home, a lot is happening in that the Labour Party,

1:21.9

the left-leaning opposition party is fragmenting, and so too is the Conservative Conservative Party because several MPs have broken away

1:30.3

from both. And does this actually pose a risk to the government, its majority or her ability to pass?

1:37.6

Is there anything we can tell about whether she's more or less likely to get her deal through?

1:41.6

Potentially it could, but a lot needs to happen.

1:44.6

So there is a large block of voters that don't support Brexit,

1:47.9

and there is a large block of MPs in both parties that don't support Brexit,

1:51.8

and therefore this movement of some, or the splintering of some moderate anti-Brexit MPs

1:57.1

could create a strong central party that could shape or even oppose Brexit. However, the

2:02.9

problem is that so far there are a relatively few of them. They're about 11. They don't have a clear

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