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🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Matt Chorley introduces part two of a special episode recorded at the Emmanuel centre in London.
Phillip Collins moderates a debate with Sarah Baxter, Daniel Finkelstein, Iain Martin and David Aaronovitch as they try to unpick the history of Europe and decide how it led us to Brexit.
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1:07.4 | This is the second episode from the Special Times Plus Event Brexit Tained Live here at the Emmanuel Center in London. In this episode a special |
1:16.9 | panel of Times and Sunday Times. Columnist asks how did we get here? How did Brexit happen and where does it sit in world history. Philip Collins |
1:27.0 | the Times Economist chairs the panel and is joined by David Erronovich, Sarah Baxter |
1:31.0 | Daniel Finkelstein and Ian Martin. David last time I played this auditorium I was selling a book on speeches and my co-stars that evening were Jeremy |
1:46.0 | Ions Simon Russell Beale and Carey Mulligan. |
1:49.4 | Well tonight playing the role of David Erronovich. I have David Erronovich. I have Sarah Baxter, I have |
1:56.3 | Ian Martin and I have Danny Finkelstein. And it's our job in the 20 minutes we have available |
2:01.6 | to talk about how we got here. How did we arrive at this |
2:05.5 | Sunlit opportunity slash total shit show? What is the historical moment that brought us here? |
2:13.6 | And it's often said that the referendum campaign |
2:19.0 | was lost by the remain side with a poor set of arguments, but actually it's very difficult to win a campaign in a few weeks |
2:26.0 | when you've had 40 years and more of argument before that. And Danny, I want to start with you because in most of your political lifetime the question of |
2:35.7 | Europe has been a wound in the Conservative Party hasn't it? Your political lifetime in |
2:40.6 | the Tory party has really been dominated by this issue. |
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