US relations, party defections, and why no-deal may be unstoppable

08/15/19 • 31 min

On the menu this week: the Telegraph’s Senior Foreign Correspondent, Roland Oliphant, talks us through a recent meeting with Donald Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton -- who is seen by many Brexiteers as a key ally in future trade talks. And - in an interview that contains some unsettling language - the former Brexit Party leader, Catherine Blaiklock, explains why she recently joined the Conservative Party, and answers questions about a series of racist tweets that she is known to have posted. (Update: shortly after this podcast was recorded, the Conservatives expelled Blaiklock from the party). Also on the episode: Professor Tim Bale discusses his new book about modern political party membership, and Maddy Thimont-Jack from the Institute for Government tells us why, according to her research, it’s going to be nigh on impossible for Parliament to stop a no-deal exit. Further reading: Tom Harris on “Silly Season” - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/14/brexit-looming-years-silly-season-serious-one-yet/ Asa Bennett on no-deal https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/08/14/hating-no-deal-brexit-wont-stop-philip-hammond-ready-do-whatever/ | Get 30 days free access to The Telegraph online: www.telegraph.co.uk/chopper Sign up to free twice-daily WhatsApp audio briefings - http://bit.ly/2XJU05f | Email: [email protected] Twitter: @brexitbroadcast

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If Brexit were a box set

The final series in the Brexit melodrama is approaching and it remains to be seen if the protagonists will stay on script. To review the latest plot twists The Telegraph’s Christopher Hope is joined by three Brexit experts, who give Boris Johnson’s first two weeks in office three very different ratings.Sitting down in the Red Lion pub this week are former Labour peer, Andrew Adonis, who believes his children’s generation will try to rejoin the European Union; new Deputy Chairman of the Conservative party, Paul Scully who tells us why delaying Brexit further would be more damaging than a no-deal scenario; plus the podcast’s regular pollster, Martin Baxter from Electoral Calculus brings an update on how he thinks Brits would vote if an early general election were called.Read Martin Baxter’s latest polling: http://bit.ly/2GTL0A8| Get 30 days free access to The Telegraph online: www.telegraph.co.uk/chopper | Sign up to The Telegraph’s daily Brexit newsletter: www.telegraph.co.uk/brexitbulletin | Email: [email protected]: @brexitbroadcast

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David Davis, an Irish dispatch and Jacob Rees-Mogg channels his inner poet laureate

On this week’s show: the former Brexit Secretary tells Christopher Hope why Boris Johnson is finally getting Brexit right, and what changes he would demand of the withdrawal agreement. Plus we dial in to The Telegraph's Brexit correspondent, James Rothwell for an update on the Irish border impasse - from the Irish border. And finally, Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg provides some light relief from the Brexit chaos in the form of Brexit poetry, including a verse penned by his sister, Annunziata. The Alternative Arrangements for the Irish Border Report, written by co-chairs of the Prosperity UK Alternative Arrangements Commission, Nicky Morgan MP and Greg Hands MP: http://bit.ly/30tVUV4 Come and see a live recording of Chopper’s Brexit Podcast in London on Saturday 5th October: www.podcastlive.com Sign up to The Telegraph’s free twice-daily WhatsApp audio briefings: http://bit.ly/2XJU05f | Email: [email protected] Twitter: @brexitbroadcast

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