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Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. On this week's new statesman podcast Stephen and I discuss Brexit and the Northern Irish border.

Where are those 56-57 who knows Brexit position papers?

And we ask is the Legartatum Institute sinister or just wrong?

So Stephen let's talk about, you know what we should talk about.

We should talk about Brexit.

We should talk about Brexit.

So I did an event with Nick Clegg at the Cambridge Literary Festival, which is sponsored by the New Statesman,

and he said, look, where he feels that Brexit will pan out will be that you'll get essentially these things

for heads of agreement, so broad kind of like, and we will sort this out and we will do this and everything will be great

When it comes before Parliament for a vote and MPs will essentially vote on that and then the idea then will be that all of the kind of really difficult stuff is going to be ironed out during the transition

period.

And I said, isn't the one exception to that the Northern Irish border because you can't fudge it, you can't

just go and something will happen with the Northern Irish border border and that's why they've become completely stuck on it and fixated on it.

But it says something very, very bad about the future negotiations on Brexit because it says that actually underneath all this hand waving

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