Could you have done Brexit better?
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Matt Chorley asks how a different prime minister might have negotiated the last three years more successfully.
Chris Wilkins, Theresa May's former speechwriter, lifts the lid on the lack of strategy behind the scenes. Jill Rutter, from the Institute for Government, says experts were shut out from day one.
Plus Oliver Wright, The Times policy editor, on the risks of setting red lines, and Times columnists Jenni Russell and Iain Martin disagree over what Michael Gove told them.
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| 0:30.0 | On this week's episode we tried to answer one simple-ish question what would you have done differently to prevent |
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| 1:08.6 | This is not normal as at the Bloomsby Theatre on May the 29th. |
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| 1:17.9 | to sweep through Westminster, destroying plans, parties and people in its wake, I wanted to turn the clock back to July 2016 when Theresa May |
| 1:27.0 | first became Prime Minister. Is there anything that she or another leader could have done differently |
| 1:32.1 | or was Brexit always destined to be a |
| 1:34.0 | complicated mess. Later I'll speak to Times economists Ian Martin and Jenny |
| 1:39.6 | Russell to get their take but first joining me in the studio Chris Wilkins |
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