Women With Balls: with Nikki da Costa

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🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Nikki da Costa is the former director of legislative affairs at No 10 Downing Street. She served under Theresa May and Boris Johnson and was pivotal in the government's wrangles with Parliament over Brexit. On the podcast, she talks to Katy Balls about why she and David Davis didn't quite get on; why she quit May's government and rejoined under Johnson; and what it was like to carry through her brainchild - the prorogation of Parliament - under scrutiny from the entire country and, eventually, the Supreme Court.

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0:39.5	MPs are to be given another vote on the Prime Minister's Brexit plans tomorrow.
0:44.7	They won't just be talked into it.
0:46.8	Mark is in a real minority here because he's voting.
0:49.8	He's voting.
0:50.8	No, no.
0:52.1	Parliament in just a few hours' time will be suspended for five weeks.
0:57.0	What if it was your job to navigate a Brexit deal through Parliament?
1:01.2	Faced for a government of no majority, an unsympathetic EU and a divided parliament where goodwill and trust are in short supply.
1:09.7	This was Nicky DeCosta's task when she entered 10 Downing Street in 2017 under Theresa May.
1:15.2	And there's this mission which is essentially find a way to still deliver a domestic
1:19.9	legislative programme in Parliament and a way to get through on the Brexit side.
1:25.1	And later for Boris Johnson.
1:27.2	There's sort of a chess board and
1:29.0	Theresa May has been there and all you've got left now is a king and a pawn. That's it. Welcome to
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