Border Farce

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Borders is borders? Impact from the EU’s aborted triggering of Article 16 of the NI Protocol continues to reverberate. Could the UK government really use this episode to tear up their own border agreement? Special guest Tony Connelly, RTE’s Europe Editor and co-presenter of the Brexit Republic Podcast, joins us to explain the Byzantine nature of the Border Protocol. Plus: ahead of COP26 and the IfG’s net zero conference, can carbon mitigation really make Britain a world leader? “It feels like the Internal Market Bill all over again. It’s a gun to the head from the British Government. It’s an ultimatum.” – Tony Connelly “If we don’t make the border protocol work then we will have rolling crises every four years.” – Tony Connelly “The politics of vaccines have become toxic… It’s heat every day for the Commission.” – Tony Connell Presented by Bronwen Maddox with Maddy Thimont-Jack, Jess Sargeant, Tom Sasse and Jill Rutter. Audio production by Alex Rees See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.
0:15.7	I'm Bronwyn Maddox.
0:17.3	Well, it didn't take long, did it?
0:19.3	Less than a month after the UK-EU treaty came into force,
0:22.5	two sides fell out spectacularly over the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines.
0:27.2	We'll take a look at the latest row and what the fallout means.
0:30.3	It was a reminder that managing the UK's relationship with the EU
0:32.9	is not going to be easy in the post-Brexit landscape.
0:35.9	We've got a new paper out this week,
0:37.6	which looks at the potential for future bustups and how to resolve them. And then we'll dive
0:42.4	into one of the first opportunities for the UK to show off what Global Britain is all about
0:46.0	when Glasgow hosts this year's International COP26 Climate Change Summit. I've assembled an
0:51.4	all-star team of Brexit experts today. Maddie Gimald-Jack, who leads our
0:55.5	Brexit team, is with us. Hi, Maddie. Hi, Brum. Jess Sargent, senior researcher on our Brexit
1:00.7	and devolution teams, and IFG Northern Ireland expert is with us too. Hi, Jess. Hi, Jess. Great to have
1:06.8	you with us and no Brexit line-up would be complete without our senior fellow Jill Rutter. Hi, Jill. Hi, I'm delighted that we're joined as well by Tony Connolly, Europe editor for RTE, Ireland's
1:17.9	Public Service broadcaster and he's co-presenter of the Brexit Republic podcast. Hi, Bronwyn.
1:24.2	Great to have you with us, Tony. How does, by the way, how does Brussels feel with the UK gone?
1:30.0	Empty, of course.
1:32.4	Well, it feels pretty empty anyway because of the pandemic and the lockdown.
1:38.1	But yeah, it is still, we're still getting used to it, to be sure.
1:42.2	But the cheerful British press corps is still here in
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