Brexit interview

Worldly

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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A special repost from the folks at Today, Explained! While the Worldly team is out enjoying the holiday weekend in the States, TEX host Sean Rameswaram helps walk you through what’s going with Brexit right now — chatting with The Atlantic’s Tom McTague about where things are at right now in the UK/EU divorce. They explain (among other things) why it’s taking so look, how Prime Minister Boris Johnson has handled certain things well, and how it’s inflaming old tensions in Northern Ireland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So it's a holiday weekend here in the United States.
0:11.4	So me and the team are going to give you a little bit of a break.
0:14.6	But that doesn't mean there's no new exciting content.
0:17.2	We have a special episode this week from our sister podcast today explained where they
0:23.1	get into what is going on with Brexit right now.
0:26.2	What is happening with the process of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union?
0:32.0	What does it mean for the global economy?
0:33.4	And what does it mean for the stability of the UK itself, given the renewed tensions
0:38.4	on the Northern Irish Ireland Order?
0:40.6	They're going to get into all of that and it's a great episode and I hope you listen
0:44.0	to it.
0:45.0	But we'll be back next week with some special worldly programming that you may be very
0:48.6	excited about.
0:49.6	Hope you have a great time listening.
0:56.2	We have made a good many episodes about Brexit on today explained.
1:17.1	One's about the economy, one's about the arguments for and against.
1:20.6	One was actually about Brexit and one was about how the move could affect the fragile
1:25.4	piece that the Good Friday agreement brought to Northern Ireland.
1:29.2	But now Brexit is really happening.
1:32.2	And President Biden just visited the UK and did some photo ops with Prime Minister Boris
1:37.3	Johnson.
1:38.3	So it felt like a good time to check in and see how everything's going out there.
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