Brexit hardliners are coming for Rishi Sunak
The Rundown by PoliticsHome
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🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Former Cabinet minister David Gauke and Professor Anand Menon, director of the UK in a Changing Europe think tank, join PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst and Caitlin Doherty to discuss the Brexit row that's bubbled back to the surface and forced new prime minister Rishi Sunak to defend the government's approach to leaving the EU to a Tory party that remains massively divided on the issue.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home. I'm your host, Alan Tullhurst. |
| 0:10.6 | With me to discuss the return of the Brexit Wars and the other big stories this week is my colleague, Caitlin Doherty. |
| 0:15.4 | And I would delight to say we're also joined by the former cabinet minister, David Gork, as well as Professor Anon Menon, who was director of the UK in a changing Europe think tank. |
| 0:24.2 | So, Caitlin, it does feel like it's 2018 all over again for us veterans of the Brexit wars. |
| 0:30.3 | Those two little words in a Sunday Times article, Swiss-style arrangements have kind of kicked off a big ferrure about kind of where we are with |
| 0:37.9 | Brexit. I think it's a good chance for us with the panel today to kind of discuss where we are |
| 0:41.6 | in terms of how much we moved on from sort of 2018, 2019, and where this government's going to go. |
| 0:46.7 | And actually, perhaps in a sense, how little we've moved on as well. So just sort of talk us |
| 0:51.2 | through how we got to this point and what you saw you at the CBI conference this week. |
| 0:55.7 | And obviously it was a hot topic for both the Richie Sooner at the Prime Minister and also Kirstama as well. |
| 1:00.1 | So just what have you kind of made of it really? |
| 1:02.3 | It does certainly feel like we've stepped back in time a little bit this week. |
| 1:06.1 | Brexit really is the story that keeps on giving. |
| 1:09.0 | And it was all kicked off over the weekend when we all first |
| 1:13.3 | saw the pages in the Sunday Times newspaper. Sunday Times said that senior government figures |
| 1:19.4 | they reported are planning to try and put Britain on the path towards what they called a more |
| 1:24.2 | Swiss-style relationship with the European Union. Now, that would mean closer economic ties. |
| 1:30.9 | And as the paper noted, you know, it's likely to make some of the more hard-line conservative |
| 1:35.6 | Brexiteers really, really quite angry. |
| 1:40.0 | And sort of the aim of that would be to achieve this more frictionless trade now that we are out of the EU. |
| 1:45.7 | And the government are obviously really keen to be striking all of these trade deals with nations and blocks around the world. |
| 1:52.0 | With perfect timing on Monday morning, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was due to speak at the CBI conference in Birmingham, |
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