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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Adam Fleming, BBC Brussels reporter speaking to you from Brussels. |
| 0:04.4 | I bet you didn't expect to hear from us so soon after we said we were going to take the whole |
| 0:08.7 | summer off, but it turns out there's been loads of Brexit news, and also there was even some |
| 0:13.2 | egg news because there was an egg safety scandal here in the EU. Anyway, welcome back Brexit cast. |
| 0:18.9 | Brexit cast. Brexit cast. From the BBC. Brexit means Brexit. |
| 0:24.4 | We are already in issue. Thank you and goodbye. You all laughed at me. You're not laughing now, are you? |
| 0:29.4 | How can these smart people be so diluted? We will make Brexit a success. |
| 0:38.0 | Welcome back. It is the middle of August, and Brexit cast has returned. I've just come back |
| 0:43.4 | from two weeks in Yorkshire and the west of Wales, where I didn't see the sun once. In fact, |
| 0:48.8 | the hottest part of the entire holiday was walking to work on Monday lunchtime through London. |
| 0:53.9 | And there was me thinking at him that, you know, I could disappear and politics would go quiet |
| 0:58.0 | after the madness of the election campaign and all the rest of it. I tried my best to avoid news, |
| 1:03.3 | and yet, dammit, I couldn't avoid you. I flick on the tele or the radio, and there you were, |
| 1:08.5 | witching away. What can I say? I mean, if the government wants to publish a paper about the future |
| 1:14.0 | of the customs union, then I'm your man to tell you all about it. And did you spot the cabinet |
| 1:20.0 | having their public brainstorm about Brexit while you're unhollowed? I did, and then I spotted that |
| 1:24.2 | joint article written by the Chancellor and the International Trade Secretary, |
| 1:29.6 | Messers Fox and Hammond, and I thought to myself without having even read it, the only time |
| 1:34.3 | cabinet ministers write joint articles is when they either hate each other or they've had a massive |
| 1:38.9 | bust up or both. And then I read the article and thought, I think they've both said pretty much |
| 1:43.1 | the same thing individually, and now they're saying it together. Yes, that is proof not that we needed |
| 1:49.4 | that they are not exactly on the same page on Brexit. Where are we then? I don't, given that |
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