Brexit: nearly done?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Was this the worst Monday morning ever for MPs? They were forced into work over the weekend to vote on the Brexit deal, and they couldn’t even do that properly. Now they’re back trying to hammer it out again. They’ve been doing this for months, stuck because there’s no majority for any agreement on Brexit. That might now be changing, there might now actually be enough MPs who will vote for the deal Boris Johnson agreed with Brussels. Passing a deal to leave, however, is just the first phase of a long process. We speak to Tom McTague, a staff writer for The Atlantic. Presenter: Matthew Price Producer: Harriet Noble Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.6	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:08.1	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.7	Every day we ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today is Brexit.
0:17.0	Today is Brexit nearly done?
0:27.0	It's that time of year again, isn't it? The dark skies and grey clouds when you pull
0:36.0	back the curtains in the morning, which never leaves anyone feeling very good about life,
0:40.4	but was this the worst Monday morning ever for MPs? They were forced into work
0:45.0	over the weekend to vote on the Brexit deal and they couldn't even do that properly.
0:49.2	So now they're back trying to hammer it out again today, as they've been doing for months.
0:55.6	The big problem is that there's been no majority in the House of Commons for any sort of
0:59.5	agreement on Brexit, so they've been stuck essentially.
1:03.9	That might be changing at the moment.
1:06.3	There might now actually just about be enough MPs who will vote for the deal that Boris
1:12.3	Johnson got with Brussels to get us through the first phase of this process.
1:18.0	But that's really just step one.
1:21.0	The Prime Minister still says that we're leaving the EU on the 31st of October, even though he was
1:26.4	forced by law by what's called the Ben Act to send a letter to Brussels over the weekend
1:31.6	to ask them to let us stay in the EU a little while longer.
1:35.6	It's Tom McTake here, staff writer at the Atlantic.
1:39.5	It's Tom's job to explain British politics to Americans, which means this week he's trying to work out ways to explain why Boris Johnson
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