What will the history books say about Brexit?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

With four weeks to go before the government’s deadline for leaving the EU, parliament is still discussing the best way forward. Was this crisis inevitable? One of the go-to places to decode all this has been the Talking Politics podcast. Helen Thompson is one of the hosts. She is also professor of political economics at the University of Cambridge and she came to the Beyond Today studio to untangle our uneasy and complicated relationship with Europe. She tells us about the key moments in our recent history that led to this crisis and why we are at a stalemate. Presented by Matthew Price Producers: Duncan Barber, Philly Beaumont Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.6	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:08.2	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:11.0	Every day we ask one big question about one big story.
0:15.0	Today, what will the history books say about Brexit?
0:27.0	They were arguing again today.
0:35.0	If not the SMP stand ready to bring this government down.
0:41.0	We've heard it for months now.
0:43.0	Mr Speaker, I would just briefly, again I must say I'm slightly disappointed by the tone
0:47.7	they're right.
0:48.7	None of this fight that they're having at the moment makes any sense if you listen to the first ever
0:53.7	recording of Parliament. As the House knows last Thursday the British people voted to
0:59.5	stay in the European community. This is from 1975 just after a referendum had been held asking the country if they, we,
1:08.1	wanted to stay in the European community.
1:10.5	The views have been held on both sides.
1:13.5	The debate is now over.
1:15.5	And it sounded like the big question had been settled if you listen to them.
1:18.7	This occasion has shown that the British people are fully aware of the importance to them of what happens in other
1:26.9	countries and of the importance of Britain taking a full part in those affairs and having a clear voice in them.
1:37.0	That question hadn't been settled, had it?
1:39.4	The person we're going to speak to today says we never actually worked out what relationship we wanted with the
1:45.1	rest of Europe which helps to explain why 44 years after that recording was
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