Waiting for Brexit

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🗓️ 11 December 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In a humiliating last-minute move, Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain postponed a vote in Parliament on Tuesday on the terms of the country’s divorce from the European Union. We look at why Britain is so frustrated by Brexit even before Brexit has taken effect. Guests: Ellen Barry, the chief international correspondent for The New York Times, and Stephen Castle, a Times correspondent in London. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. This episode includes disturbing language.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:02.0	This is the day.
0:04.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:08.4	Today.
0:10.4	In a humiliating last-minute move,
0:13.0	Prime Minister Theresa May has canceled today's historic vote
0:17.6	on the terms of Britain's divorce from the European Union.
0:21.9	Ellen Berry and Stephen Castle,
0:24.2	on why Britain is so frustrated by Brexit.
0:27.6	Before Brexit has even begun,
0:30.6	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:33.1	It's Tuesday, December 11th.
0:36.1	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:38.5	The eyes for the right 311,
0:41.1	the nose for the left 293.
0:43.9	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:45.3	So this has been a very strange week in British politics.
0:50.4	The eyes for the right 311,
0:54.6	the nose to the left 293.
0:59.2	So the eyes have it, the eyes have it.
1:02.7	A lot.
1:04.7	A number of things have happened that haven't happened for decades.
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