Brexit Podcast

With the Tories moving ever more to the right while Labour moves left, there has been a lot of talk about whether the UK needs a new party, our answer to Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche!. Renew Britain wants to be that party. Founded in 2017, it hopes to occupy the abandoned centre ground in UK politics and to represent all those who feel like picking between red and blue is like bei

One of the key issues in the Brexit negotiations – and one of the three highly contested matters to be put on the table this far – has been citizens rights. But all too often, both the media and politicians talk predominantly about EU citizens living in the UK while completely sidelining the fate of Brits living abroad. For today’s podcast we brought on Karen O’Reilly, a So

The Remain campaign pinned all it's hopes on the intimidating power of statistics, assuming they would scare people into staying. But project fear failed. So what's the alternative for the Remainers that are staunchly continuing to advocate for a more europhilic Britain? The answer, according to artist and activist Madeleina Kay, is project fun. We talk to the 23-year-old about dre

Peter Hitchens is an author and columnist for the Mail on Sunday

The fashion industry employs over 880,000 individuals in the UK and generates upwards of £28billion for the economy, but is its voice being heard over Brexit? One woman who wants to make sure its concerns are on the agenda is Tamara Cincik, who is the brainchild behind Fashion Roundtable, a parliamentary lobbying project, that launches officially on November 21. Tamara joins Tim t

What impact will Brexit have on scientific research? Will the UK suffer in terms of innovation and talent? And can any positives be taken from the democratic decision to leave the European Union? Dr Mike Galsworthy is the founder of Scientists for EU, a lobbying group set up before last year’s referendum to try and educate both government - and the public - on the pros and cons o

The last time we checked in with youth lobbying group Undivided it was for Episode 12 of the podcast, and fresh from the result of the EU referendum they were crowdsourcing a manifesto to take to parliament to outline the key Brexit issues for young people. Twelve months on, Tim is joined by campaign manager Elspeth Hoskins, who outlines their progress to date and explains how they

The combative and eloquent Alastair Campbell has a reputation among many journalists for his belligerence. He is widely painted as a bully. YouTube is replete with videos of him going toe to toe with a who’s who of political figures and journalists. It’s clear Campbell has a public platform and voice that few others enjoy. He’s now setting about using it to try and stop Brex

Henry Bolton is the new leader of UKIP and faces a fascinating challenge, needing to realign and strategise a party on the brink of electoral irrelevance when it loses its MEPs in 2019. Rather him than me. He spoke to the Brexit Podcast about becoming the Pro-Brexit opposition, UKIP’s intention to launch a positive future for a United Kingdom outside of the EU and, obviously, how

Tony Connelly is Europe Editor for RTE, Ireland’s public broadcaster. He explained the contentious, at times mystifying, issue of the Irish border, what’s going to happen to Bailey’s and why the Brexit divorce may not reach a harmonious settlement.