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accused of being soft on divorce from the e.u. but how cantor reason may please everyone and convince e.u. leaders to this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnigan britain's prime minister's reason may is defending her plans for briggs it in the face of protest resignations from her governing conservative party julia ministers as well as two vice chairs of step down following the resignations of minister briggs that david davis and foreign secretary boris johnson who says the dream of briggs it is dying but may insists that her current position will let the e.u. k. leave the e.u. in a smooth and orderly way in brussels where she attended the nato summit she said her

brings it deal will protect jobs and british commitments to will the island the czech a steel plant has been put together it's been agreed government will be publishing our white paper this week which will set out more detail on it it's there because it delivers on the people gave them bricks it it delivers the fact that we will have an end to free movement that we would have an end to the jurisdiction of the european court of justice in the u.k. we went be spending vast vast contributions to every we ask the common agricultural policy out of the common fisheries policy we did that breaks it and we do it in a way that the tax jobs and livelihoods and meets our commitment and britain voted in what was billed at the time as an advisory referendum two years ago to become the first country to leave the european union then prime minister david cameron who called the referendum resigned in march last year his successor to reason may invoke the european law known as arctic. fifty the formal mechanism to leave the e.u. set the wheels in motion after forty four years as an e.u.

member a new rules gave the british government two years to negotiate the divorce after months of disagreement within the government may says she's ready to deliver a brink's agreement that keeps absolute faith with the people's decision to leave so let's bring in our guests for today's discussion both of whom are in london jonathan lis is the deputy director of the business advisory group british influence and john johnston is a political reporter at politics home gentlemen welcome to you both jonathan list let's start with you so now forma foreign secretary boris johnson said in his resignation letter that the brig's it dream is dying suffocated by self-doubt is he right. well dream is the opposite because it never existed except in his imagination imagination is not a breakfast is it was always going to be a case that the brakes that he wants he could never be delivered you either have

a break say in accordance with what the e.u. says which is the boosting the market in the full customs union or who you have breaks a wish to advise the casing of markets between northern ireland and great britain or you have no deal a tool there is never any option for cherry picking boris johnson has been living calculation for too long not just boris johnson it seems that briggs it is within the conservative party the governing conservative party appear not to understand that the e.u. is a rules based organization of the u.k. just can't cherry pick aspects of membership that it wants to keep and those that it wishes to discard i mean that's what's led to all of this infighting isn't it. absolutely it's the kind of exceptionalism that britain has you know still maintains ek government is still maintained this ludicrous position that he needs us more than we need them that's all we had during the referendum campaign twenty sixteen and it's kind of led the policies of the government ever since it's simply not true it never has been true never will be true so when the e.u. set off the referendum you can't cherry pick this in the markets you can't if you

want to end free movement that means you have to go for both on a trade deal they still mean it now so when the u.k. government goes to checkers in comes out with this deal which leaves the departure of two cabinet ministers the easiest ones to still but you're asking for a single market it gets but not in services people kept so that simply won't wash john johnston. do the brigadiers within the conservative party have any idea of how the you the e.u. works or as the the now former minister in charge of exiting the e.u. david davis implied this week that this fudge that we've been seeing within the conservative party this apparent. complete ignorance about the way that the the e.u. works is a negotiating tactic in the that the british government the cabinet this week has done the u.k. great harm by backing a plan that will lead to to a less hard briggs's. yes well obviously the the government has now got this plan

that they are going to take to the european union that is already in tatters before we even get there so it remains to be seen how the e.u. are going to respond there's certainly parts of the checkers plan that they have looked at that they have already said they would not agree with and now we have to wait and see tomorrow when the fool detail of the white paper comes out how they will accept it there's obviously the problem is that if they reject this plan out right it's going to tourism is position in jeopardy and i think the the view in the european union the moment is that she is the only person who can possibly come up with a deal that both sides can pass to reason may now has a more pragmatic flexible cabinet with the resignation of david davis and boris johnson is her position now save the scene off any potential leadership challenge and reasserted her authority. well the first thing to say is that series i'm a is

a very resilient prime minister she's seen off crisis as the other leaders would have taken them down but no she's certainly not out of the woods when it comes to a leadership challenge we're getting the breaks a tears are drip feeding resignations and in order to try and force her to change our policy position but ultimately if she won't change and by which towards their demands they will probably make a move against her in order to do that they need to file forty eight letters of no confidence in her it seems likely that they maybe have those letters ready to go but what that will that mean is a leadership challenge and it remains to be seen whether they can convince fifty percent plus one of their m.p.'s to vote turned down because if they do that it still doesn't change the parliamentary math and it could trigger a general election in which jeremy corbin could feasibly when which is certainly something the brakes to do not want to happen or it's a journalist to what extent is that is the cabinets and the m.p.'s within the governing conservative party fall into line behind the prime minister simply

because it is running scared of the opposition labor party. i think that it's a very important point that many of them are sort of clinging to severe words they say but the point is that even if treason may were to be deposed then the new prime minister would still be in the same weak position that any prime minister would be in at the moment because the u.k. has almost no cards to play against the european union and so when the e.u. says we're not going to accept this check is still there you either have the full thing about an customs union or none of it except northern ireland that no prime minister no matter how strong or charismatic is going to be able to change that position because the e.u. at the moment has no incentive to give britain what it wants because the e.u. is its credibility and cohesion are at stake and the e.u. has all the power at the moment because it knows that the u.k. cannot settle for no deal partly because the part of it would never accept that and partly because it's equipment a national self-immolation is simply not a viable option for the government and that means that the u.k.

will concede to pretty much everything the e.u. wants and it has done in the last year already all right so you talked about the checkers deal jonathan that was the agreement fleshed out last friday at the prime minister's country residence when she got her cabinet together to figure flesh out a briggs's ambition that they could all unite behind as john was saying the details of that deal are due to be published in a white paper on thursday as far as you're concerned john of the what's wrong with the checkers deal then why is it unworkable and what do you make of it as a opening bid as far as negotiations with the e.u. a concern. why i think it's very important to say there is an opening bit and i think that we do need to recognise that the u.k. government has come a long way from the unicorn chasing of two years ago when it said it could basically have all the advantages of the single market without any responsibilities so now it's at least saying that yes we will be announcing about the gates if the u.k. parliament doesn't accept something then we'll have

a will have consequences but the check is agreement is unworkable for two key reasons the first one is about northern ireland it's absolutely clear to anyone who understands the situation or not and that northern ireland itself must be in a single market for goods and a customs union importantly but reason may is refusing to accept the idea that we will be in a customs union because she still wants the power to arrange country trade deals with the us australia and so on so we have this really peculiar causes partnership maxim facilitation newcastle's partnership and all the things which the e.u. has already rejected or the bottom line is northern ireland has to be in the customs union otherwise our customs barriers and that means that the u.k. the whole u.k. has to be in the customs union otherwise we'll have customs barriers between great britain and northern ireland which effectively splits up the u.k. so that's one of the reasons why some work will the other reason why it's unworkable is that it's asking for one of the freedoms of the single market which

is the freedom of goods but not the other three services capsule and importantly people free movement of people in such a totality issue for the e.u. they will not allow the case to get benefits the single market without having free movement of people so john johnson why if the cabinet knows that it that it's unworkable that the e.u. is going to reject most of the proposals within the checkers deal what why did the cabinet back it where the cabinet backed it because the they need to try and come up with a position that the tory party would accept and at the time when the checkers deal was finalized it seemed like to me. may have been able to ambush her here cabinet members with the hope that their backing of the deal which quell some of the bricks at rebellion on her back benches but as we've seen with the resignation of david davis and forced johnson that has not happened the breaks tears are now in full revolt jacob reece morgan other prominent hears have put down amendments to

monday's trade bill to try and dampen down elements of the checkers deal the whole thing is now falling apart but originally the reason behind it was so they had something they could bring to the e.u. that was unified whether the e.u. were going to reject it or not they had to have something unified and now they no longer have that what about boris johnson's political career is a lot of media criticism over the former foreign secretary following his resignation saying that he'd been the worst foreign secretary in british history. is it over for boris johnson no it certainly appears to be i mean boris johnson being elevated to the foreign office many people saw was just the rise and rise of his career but in many ways this stint in the foreign office has killed off his chances again boris has boris as everyone says he could buy him spock but it seems very unlikely that he would get the backing of enough of his own m.p.'s in a leadership race to make it into the final ballot to members if he did however there is still the possibility that the tory membership would back him and he could

end up the prime minister you say at the moment he wouldn't get the backing i mean he's very popular still with the grassroots supporters of the conservative party what happens if there is a grassroots rebellion if if members of parliament are going back to their constituencies and getting criticism from from party members locally. as i said boris johnson very popular with the local body members still i mean what happens if there is a grassroots rebellion within the conservative party not just in the parliamentary one well certainly that's what some breakfast here and piece are saying that there . even from their activists they're refusing to go out and campaign because they are so upset with this what they perceive as betrayal of the bracks vote but ultimately it comes down to m.p.'s have got to be the ones who trigger the vote of no confidence in the prime minister and for them the great risk in doing that is that any new leader would be under immense pressure to college general election and

in doing that they risk jeremy corbyn winning it's very feasible that he could win with the tory party in such chaos and obviously notorious he wants to be the one responsible for bringing jeremy corbin into number ten but jonathan lis what about the much touted briggs it dividend the financial windfall of the country would receive as a result of the longer having to pay into the e.u. there are those that argue that they simply wouldn't be one whatever the form of breaks in the u.k. eventually settles for let's just suppose for a moment that the brigadiers are right that they would have been some kind of dividend this check is deal would surely water down any form of dividend if there was to be one wouldn't it absolutely i mean certainly the financial dividend is a total fallacy but the one thing the braces really wanted of course was these third country trade deals i mentioned and what the government has just committed itself to is to align itself with agricultural standards now that kills the u.s. trade deal of birth because the u.s. has been absolutely clear that there will only accept a trade deal with the u.k.

only push for one if we adopt our agricultural standards to allow treats of beef korean chicken etc that means we can't do that and also australia might well ask the entries to beef as well we simply won't do that the government is now admits that the government has basically said that we're going to get a lot b.s. on the single market so instead of we were removing ourselves from the room and going outside it's trying to influence what happens inside that boris johnson rule that he's wrong about was upset he writes in his resignation letter when he pointed out that the government has for years been arguing with with bits of regulations it disagrees with and now it's accepted.