Why is Brexit back to haunt the Tory party?

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🗓️ 24 November 2022

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Summary

Rishi Sunak has denied reports that the government is preparing to seek a “Swiss-style” deal with the EU over the next decade to rebuild economic ties with the trading bloc.

Rachel Cunliffe, Rachel Wearmouth and Freddie Hayward discuss why the Prime Minister is incurring the wrath of hardline Tory Brexiteers, the signs of rising public discontent with Brexit, and whether this is a window of opportunity for Labour.

Meanwhile Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, has once again come under fire as she struggled to explain to the MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee how someone fleeing persecution would legally seek asylum in the UK. The team discuss how long Braverman can hold on as Home Secretary and why she is a symptom of a government in disarray.

Then in You Ask Us a listener asks: should England have boycotted the Qatar World Cup?

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1:09.8	Hi, I'm Rachel Connler, and I'm Rachel VMF, and I'm Freddie Haywood.
1:13.6	And on today's New Statesman podcast, we're asking, why is Brexit back? And then in today's
1:20.0	you ask us, should we have boycotted the World Cup in Qatar?
1:27.6	So we'll start with the big news of the week, which is very much a sense of deja vu, because
1:32.8	Brexit is back. It's feeling very 2016 or 2017 or 2018 or 2019, or basically any of the years
1:43.0	and the Brexit was, because we had a headline in the Sunday Times saying that
1:49.1	British E-NAC was going to pursue Swiss style arrangements with the EU, so closer EU ties,
1:56.6	which I mean, I've never seen government denials so quick and so strong, but that story is still
2:04.8	playing out three, four, five days later. Rachel, let's start with you. What's going on here?
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