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Politics Unpacked

Who blew up Brexit?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley is in parliament with politicians and pundits, asking how Geoffrey Cox became so key to Theresa May's deal, and what the hell happens now.

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:16.5

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0:21.1

Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns.

0:27.0

Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy.

0:35.0

Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.

0:40.0

Book your train journey via Avanti westcoast.co. UK.

0:45.2

avante west coast feel good travel.

0:49.3

Is this the moment which blew up Brexit?

0:55.0

Methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

1:04.5

Ladies and gentlemen, let us seize that prize.

1:09.2

Thank you.

1:09.8

That was Jeffrey Cox at the Tory conference

1:11.6

as he emerged of the Prime Ministers and the Tory Party's

1:14.0

favorite Brexiteer. Fast forward five months and the Attorney General's high profile and with it the elevated

1:19.5

importance of his legal advice on the Irish backstop had helped crush Theresa May's deal again, defeated

1:26.0

by 391 votes to 242.

1:29.6

This is the Red Box Politics Podcast on The Times.

1:32.0

I'm Matt Chor Jolly in the House of Commons

1:33.8

to another one of those historic knights in Parliament when Theresa May goes down

1:38.0

to a humiliating defeat and absolutely nobody has a clue what is going on.

1:43.4

In this episode I speak to Sunday Times political editor Tim Schittman

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