Who should lead the Eurosceptics?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Tim Montgomerie is joined by Lucy Fisher, Rachel Sylvester and Helen Rumbelow.Lucy Fisher:As the referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU looms closer, the “out” campaign is beginning to take shape. But its proponents now face a number of tough questions: who to lead them, with whom to ally and what strategies to pursue? The right business chiefs must be recruited, Tory Eurosceptics and Ukip must calculate how closely to embrace each other, and theoretical reasoning about UK sovereignty must be carefully balanced with more tangible arguments about the impact of immigration.Rachel Sylvester:Labour is speaking in code as it launches its leadership contest. Aspiration, equality, responsibility, choice, Blairite Brownite - these are words used to signify a political direction rather than simply to communicate. The party has to face up to electoral reality and go back to celebrating success even if that means some people doing better than others.Helen Rumbelow:Flexible working the male way: ask...

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1:00.0	Welcome to the Times opinion podcast. My name is Tim Montgomery and today I'm joined by
1:06.8	two Times columnist Rachel Sylvester and Helen Rumbullo and also by one of our
1:11.9	political correspondence Lucy Fisher and here are our
1:15.8	topics for this week. As the referendum on Britain's membership of the EU
1:21.7	looms closer the out campaign is beginning to take shape,
1:24.7	but its proponents now face a number of tough questions, who to lead them, with whom to ally,
1:29.5	and what strategies to pursue. The right business chiefs must be recruited.
1:33.4	Tori Eurosceptics and UKIP must calculate how closely to embrace each other.
1:37.3	And theoretical reasoning about UK sovereignty must be carefully balanced with more
1:41.2	tangible arguments about the impact of immigration.
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